Nikonorova replaces Pushilin at Minsk talks on Donbas (Photo)

So-called "head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") Natalia Nikonorova has been tapped to replace acting "DPR" "head" Denis Pushilin at Trilateral Contact Group talks on eastern Ukraine in Minsk, Belarus.

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"To appoint Natalia Yurievna Nikonorova permanent plenipotentiary representative of the 'DPR' at the negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk," Pushilin said in a "decree," according to terrorists' media.

Pushilin has been a "DPR" envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk since 2014.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the so-called "People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic" on September 7 appointed Pushilin acting head of the unrecognized "DPR."