The President of Ukraine signed a decree fixing the composition of the delegation during negotiations with Russia. In addition to the officials already participating, it included Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska and Ambassador Extraordinary Alexander Chaly
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed decree on the appointment of a delegation for negotiations with the Russian side and discussion of a draft treaty on security guarantees for the country. Thus, he officially fixed the composition of the participants in the negotiations from Ukraine.
The delegation includes 10 people: the head of the Servant of the People of France and the head of the delegation, David Arakhamia, people’s deputies Andriy Kostin, Dmitry Lubinets, Rustem Umerov, Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak, Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov, Deputy Foreign Minister Mykola Tochitsky, lawyer and expert of the delegation Alexander Malinovsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Alexander Chaly.
For the most part, the composition enshrined in the decree coincides with the composition of the delegation announced by Kiev on February 28, the day negotiations with the Russian side began. Then it was announced about six members of the delegation, now Lubinets and Malyuska have been added to them. Malinovsky and Chaly.
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