MINSK, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR) are talking about the common space of security and post-war reconstruction of ties with Ukraine, DPR Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin said Monday in Minsk.
"We are talking about a common space of security for Ukraine, DPR and LPR; about the post-war restoration of economic, cultural and social ties with Ukraine, and about the fact that DPR and LPR will not lay claims to other areas of Ukraine," Purgin said.
DPR and LPR representatives unveiled their negotiating position on Monday before the meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis in Minsk. The contact group that met after a month's break is composed of diplomats from Russia, Kiev, the OSCE, as well as from the southeast of Ukraine.
Independence supporters said that if the self-proclaimed republics received certain legislative guarantees of their special status, they would use every effort to "save the single economic, cultural and political space of Ukraine and the whole space of the Russian-Ukrainian civilization."
