The mid-May 2017 regular meeting in Minsk would be a sound platform where Ukraine stubbornly insisted upon a hearing on the verification procedure for presumably pardonable offenders against Ukraine unwilling to return to the temporarily occupied territories, the envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group’s Humanitarian sub-group Iryna Herashchenko stated at the briefing.
She also said, there were 128 persons - civic and military - still illegally held captive in the temporarily occupied territories. And the detention places of the many were vague as yet. The other side wanted 600 persons to be released instead, having lots of unpardonable amid them for particularly serious crimes. There were also many persons unwilling to return to the temporarily occupied territories, who exactly were subject to the verification. The verification process was strictly coordinated by OSCE, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian ombudsman’s officers.
We had high hopes on the upcoming meeting to deblock releasing of the prisoners, finished I.Herashchenko.