Statament by the OSCE Chairperson and the Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group

MINSK/BELGRADE, 30 January 2015 - The Special Representative of the CiO to the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, wishes to emphasize that her representatives have been waiting in Minsk since yesterday morning in order to prepare for a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group with representatives from certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. Their efforts to contact these representatives were not successful. Ambassador Tagliavini and her representatives continue to be ready for a meeting at any time, and they continue being actively working for this purpose.

The Chairperson-in-Office, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia H.E. Ivica Dačić also wishes to underline the importance of holding this Meeting and reiterates his call to convene it as soon as possible.