The result of the consultation meeting September 05 in Minsk The protocol consisted of 12 points aimed at stabilizing the situation and achieving peace in Donbas. The Trilateral Contact Group, which discussed the necessary steps, consisted of representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and the OSCE.
The document's format appears rather odd, as the only official title listed is that of Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov. OSCE Representative Heidi Tagliavini is, for some reason, introduced as "ambassador." Leonid Kuchma speaks in the informal capacity of the second President of Ukraine. Representatives of the DPR and LPR, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, appear to be acting as private individuals without any official titles or regalia.
This begs the question: is a document legally binding if representatives of virtually all parties act in an unclear (in the official sense) capacity? And doesn't this format relieve all parties of responsibility for the agreement?
Suspicions of the document's unofficial nature are further reinforced by the lack of a date and place indicating when and where the participants' signatures were actually placed. There is information that another document was also signed, which will soon be made public.
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Heidi Tagliavini is a Swiss diplomat. In 2003, NZZ Folio (the monthly magazine Neue Zürcher Zeitung) named her "Switzerland's outstanding diplomat." She headed the commission investigating the causes of the armed conflict in South Ossetia.
She speaks seven languages. During the 1985 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, she translated from Russian for Swiss President Kurt Furgler.
Born in 1950 in Basel to an Italian-born architect and an artist from Lucerne, she joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and the Political Directorate in 1984. In 1995, she was a member of the first OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya. In 1996, she worked at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow.
From 1998 to 1999, she held the position of Deputy Head of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia.
After returning to Switzerland in 1999, she was appointed Head of the Political Section for Human Security in the Political Directorate of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. From 2000 to 2001, she served as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in the Caucasus. From 2001 to 2002, she was the Swiss Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2002, she headed the UN Observer Mission in Georgia. In 2006, she returned to Bern, where she took up the position of Deputy Head of the Political Directorate of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
On November 21, 2008, it was announced that Tagliavini had been appointed head of the commission investigating the causes of the armed conflict in South Ossetia. She was allocated a budget of 1,6 million euros. The commission's report was scheduled for presentation on July 31, 2009, but was postponed until September 30. The final report, published on September 30, concluded that Georgia started the war, but both sides were responsible for the escalation of the conflict.
From late 2009 to early 2010, she headed the OSCE mission to observe the presidential elections in Ukraine.
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