Agenda for Minsk Contact Group on Ukrainian Crisis Still Undecided

According to Russia’s representative to OSCE, the new Minsk talks the agenda still under discussion.

MOSCOW, December 23 (Sputnik) – The agenda for the Minsk talks on settling the Ukrainian crisis has not yet been agreed upon, Russia’s representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Tuesday.

“I can’t say that the agenda has been agreed. This is a process, and a very complex one,” Andrei Kelin said during a video uplink.

On Monday Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia had reached an agreement to hold a contact group meeting in Minsk on December 24 and 26.

The Contact Group on Ukraine is a group of representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE seeking to facilitate a diplomatic resolution to the conflict between the Ukraine central government and the independence supporters of the country's southeast.

The September 5 Contact Group meeting in Minsk led to a ceasefire agreement between the conflicting sides. They have, however, repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

Last week Poroshenko announced that a resumption of Contact Group talks on the Ukraine crisis would take place on December 21 but this meeting did not occur.