Minsk to host Trilateral Contact Group meeting today

The OSCE-Ukraine-Russia Contact Group is scheduled to meet inMinsktoday to consider the humanitarian subgroup"s report on prisoner release.Kievexpects substantial progress in this regard. The Group‘s further work will depend on a decision of the leaders of the Normandy Four. The most serious achievement of the Contact Group is a silence mode, which, with few exceptions, has been observed in easternUkrainesince September.