During this year, the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG made active efforts to fulfill the tasks set by the president of Ukraine on the way to advance through the stages of a peaceful settlement.
The Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) has outlined a list of next steps to resolve the situation in Donbas.
"The implementation of the agreements of the Normandy Four leaders, as well as the entire package of the Minsk agreements, remains for Ukraine the basis for the political and diplomatic settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict and the restoration of peace in Donbas," the delegation wrote on Facebook on the anniversary of the Normandy Four summit held in Paris on December 9, 2019.
During this year, the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG made active efforts to fulfill the tasks set by the president of Ukraine on the way to advance through the stages of a peaceful settlement.
"Thanks to the activation of the Trilateral Contact Group as an important consultative mechanism for the implementation of the Minsk agreements and the adoption in July 2020 of additional measures to strengthen the ceasefire, the security situation in the conflict zone has stabilized, which, despite the continuation of provocations by the Russian Federation's armed formations, resulted in a significant reduction in the number of human casualties and destruction of critical infrastructure," the report says.
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In addition, the Ukrainian side made important initiatives for further disengagement of forces and weapons and the continuation of the mine clearance process, took other practical steps to ensure sustainable security of the environment and improve the overall humanitarian situation in the conflict zone.
The Ukrainian delegation to the TCG sees the next steps as such: