MINSK, 21 September 2016 – Ambassador Martin Sajdik,
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and to the
Trilateral Contact Group, made the following press statement today after a
meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group:
“I am glad to inform you
that after three months of tenuous efforts and hard work, the Working Group on
Security Issues has finally managed to agree on the text of the Framework
Decision on Disengagement of Forces and Hardware. This document has been signed
today by representatives of the government of Ukraine and of the Russian
Federation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and initialed by
representatives from certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The document provides
for, among other things, the establishment of areas of disengagement of forces
and hardware along the contact line. The Working Group on Security Issues has
also succeeded in agreeing on all issues concerning three areas of
disengagement: Zolote, Petrivske and Stanytsia Luhanska.
I would like to use this
opportunity to express my personal appreciation for the successful work of
Ambassador Ertugul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission
to Ukraine (SMM) and Co-ordinator of the Working Group on Security Issues.“
The Russian original
version of the Framework Decision on Disengagement of
Forces and Hardware can be accessed here
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