"Ukraine's Foreign Minster Pavlo Klimkin and acting OSCE Chairman, Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz will pay a working visit to Donetsk region," the statement said.
On January 1, Austria assumed the chairmanship in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, with Kurz becoming the acting chairman of the Organization.
Kiev launched a special military operation in Ukraine’s southeast in April 2014, after local residents refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power as a result of a coup.
In February 2015, the two sides agreed to a ceasefire after talks brokered by the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine – the so-called Normandy Format – in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, with the OSCE tasked to monitor the situation in the conflict zone.