In Donetsk the SMM had a meeting with the ‘minister of information’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ (DPR), who informed the SMM that Viktor Medvedchuk, who previously served as head of former President Leonid Kuchma’s presidential administration, had recently been appointed as a representative of both the DPR and the so-called ‘Luhansk People's Republic' for negotiations with the Government, to be facilitated by the OSCE
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