Tagliavini says Contact Group on Ukraine to meet next week
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The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine will reconvene in Minsk next week, the outgoing special representative for Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Heidi Tagliavini, said on June 16.
H. Tagliavini qui a annoncé son retrait mais dont on ne connait pas la date.
Swiss diplomat Tagliavini to give up Ukraine OSCE role - StarTribune.com
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The Swiss government says diplomat Heidi Tagliavini plans to step down as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s representative in talks between Moscow, Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.
Tagliavini, who previously worked on crises in places including Chechnya and Georgia, has played a low-key but well-regarded role for the past year in efforts to cool the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Tagliavini wants to give up her mandate soon. It gave no reason or exact timing for her departure.
The announcement comes four days after the latest talks ended with no visible results. The OSCE’s deputy chief monitor in Ukraine has called for an urgent resumption of negotiations amid the worst fighting since a cease-fire began to take hold in March.
Brève du Kyiv Post à propos de cette démission (certainement pas une bonne nouvelle en ce qu’elle révèle sûrement le constat d’une absence de volonté d’aboutir à un accord).
Tagliavini resignation could have been prompted by disruption of Contact Group meeting on June 2
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Heidi Tagliavini’s resignation as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) envoy for Ukraine could have been prompted by the disruption of the Trilateral Contact Group meeting on June 2, a source with the group organizing the Contact Group’s meetings in Minsk said.
Un (inhabituel) coup de chapeau appuyé à LA représentante de l’OSCE à Minsk.
The Unsung Heroine of Minsk Talks - Bloomberg Business
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Just two women were at the table as the cease-fire between Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine and the government in Kiev was hammered out. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one. The other was #Heidi_Tagliavini.
The discreet, 65-year-old Swiss diplomat worked alongside Merkel, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, France’s Francois Hollande and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko on the deal to stem the conflict that has devastated eastern Ukraine.
In the “Green Room” of the vast marble-and-glass Independence Palace in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, Tagliavini helped stave off a collapse late in the talks, according to officials who were there. As someone Putin has long felt he could trust, diplomats say, she was able to silence a contingent of separatists who wanted to see the whole deal reworked.
“She is very smart,” Alexander Surikov, Russia’s ambassador in Belarus, said on the sidelines at the Independence Palace as talks stretched into the night. “She really works for security. She helps to keep these talks on the right path.”
ITAR-TASS: World - Contact Group on Ukraine meeting in Minsk
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A meeting of the Contact Group on the Ukrainian crisis settlement has started in Belarusian capital Minsk.
Like last time on September 5, the talks involve former Ukrainian president and the current president’s special envoy Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky.
First deputy DPR premier Andrey Purgin, LPR Supreme Council chairman Alexey Karyakin, Russia’ s ambassador to Kiev Mikhail Zurabov and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini are also taking part.
According to Kuchma, the Trilateral Contact Group comprising Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE will consider a memorandum whose first point is how to stop hostilities in Ukraine’s embattled southeast.
He expressed hope for progress and added that the issue of the OSCE’s role in strengthening the security regime on the Russian-Ukrainian border was also on the agenda. Besides, Kuchma said, the OSCE should take under its control “the situation with the zone that will have a local self-government”.
Karyakin confirmed to ITAR-TASS earlier today that the meeting’s key goal will be to negotiate issues of strengthening the ceasefire regime.
Ukraine : les négociations de paix reprennent à Minsk
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Des représentants du gouvernement ukrainien et des séparatistes prorusses se sont réunis vendredi 19 septembre à Minsk (Biélorussie) pour commencer de nouvelles négociations de paix, en présence d’un représentant de l’Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE) et de l’ambassadeur de Russie à Kiev, Mikhaïl Zourabov. C’est la troisième fois que le groupe de contact se retrouve à Minsk.
L’ancien président ukrainien Léonid Koutchma, qui représente Kiev, a déclaré à la presse « espérer que cette réunion permette d’aller de l’avant », soulignant la nécessité de « parvenir à un cessez-le-feu », l’accord en ce sens signé le 5 septembre étant violé à peu près quotidiennement sur le terrain. Il a précisé que les négociations ne se feraient « en aucun cas au détriment de l’intégrité territoriale de l’Ukraine ».
Le « premier ministre » de la « République de Donetsk » unilatéralement proclamée, Alexandre Zakhartchenko, a de son côté dit espérer « signer un document qui reflète notre position concernant le “statut spécial” » proposé par Kiev aux régions sous contrôle rebelle. Un autre chef séparatiste, Andreï Pourguine, avait auparavant affirmé que la réunion porterait en priorité sur ce « statut spécial ».
Jusqu’à présent, cette proposition de Kiev d’un « statut spécial », saluée par Moscou, a été rejetée par les rebelles qui revendiquent l’indépendance des territoires conquis.