Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in KievLUGANSK, Jan 25 Kiev representatives refuse to discuss the plan on the restoration of socio-economic ties with the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass, spokeswoman for the LPR delegation at the negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in the region Maria Kovshar said on Tuesday following the meeting of the economic subgroup. Donbass. On Wednesday, a videoconference of the contact group will take place. At the meeting of the economic subgroup, representatives of the republic expected to discuss the restoration of economic ties with Kiev. the Ukrainian side refuses the «road map» for the restoration of socio-economic ties, allowing only certain aspects of the restoration of socio-economic ties to be discussed. The representative of Ukraine could not explain what the difference is,» Kovshar said in a statement provided to journalists. She clarified that during the discussion restoration of socio-economic ties, the representative of Kiev nevertheless voiced a number of issues that, in her understanding, require preliminary study in order to form approaches to the implementation of the eighth paragraph of the set of measures of the Minsk agreements. «Ukraine refused to discuss this topic for more than a year. Thus, we finally managed to convince the Ukrainian the other side to abandon the vicious tactic of linking work on the eighth paragraph of the Package of Measures with the implementation of the previous seven,» the spokeswoman for the delegation explained. initiative to recognize the republics of Donbass
