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Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak said this during an online discussion entitled Pandemic, reform, war and peace: The view from Ukraine’s White House, organized by the Atlantic Council and broadcast on Facebook.

"Ukraine will never hold any kind of negotiations with the so-called "LPR / DPR"... In accordance with the Minsk agreements, Ukraine is supposed to agree three legislative acts with representatives of the territories," Yermak said.

He specified whom Ukraine perceives as representatives of the occupied territories of Donbas.

"Ukraine accepts as representatives of the territories representatives of public society, citizens of Ukraine who have Ukrainian citizenship (since many people who reside today in the occupied territories received Russian passports), who never participated in the war against Ukraine, who were forced to stay on the occupied areas, who are not criminals, who have never killed Ukrainian soldiers, who were never involved in criminal activities or making any criminal decisions," Yermak said.

He also emphasized that there are three participants in the Minsk process: Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE.

As a reminder, at the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas on March 11, attended by Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak, an agreement was reached on the establishment of the Consultative Council within the TCG political subgroup after the consultations with the representatives of the OSCE, France, and Germany on the implementation of the agreements reached during the Normandy format summit.

According to Yermak, no steps were taken at the TCG meeting to create a legal framework for recognizing representatives of the occupied Donbas.

On March 13, representatives of the Servant of the People Party declared the inadmissibility of participation of representatives of the occupied Donbas in Ukraine-Russia talks within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.

Later, Yermak assured that the format of the TCG negotiations in Minsk between the representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and the OSCE remained unchanged.

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