Kyiv authorities invite signatories of Geneva agreement to meet in Kyiv city hall …
The Kyiv authorities have invited the signatories of the Geneva April 17 agreement and an OSCE monitoring mission to meet in the Kyiv City State Administration building in the next two days, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the proposal by Kyiv City State Administration that the signatories of the Geneva agreements, including Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and Russia, and representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine meet in the administration’s building in coming days. The ministry is ready to assist in the arrangement of the event,” the ministry said.
Such proposal was put forth on April 25, 2014, during a meeting between First Deputy Head of Kyiv City Administration Bohdan Dubas and OSCE Special Monitoring Mission representatives, who were able to inspect the administration’s building.
The building, occupied by Euromaidan protesters on December 1, 2013, and partly vacated late in March 2014, is now being renovated.
Yulia Torhovets, the press secretary of Kyiv City State Administration Head, said on April 24, 2014, that Euromaidan activists would completely leave the city hall’s building, located at 36 Khreschatyk Street in Kyiv, by the end of the current week, and a pass entry system would be introduced as of April 28.
“The city hall has been closed, but there are still some people there. Yet we hope that they will leave the premises by the end of the week,” she told Interfax-Ukraine.
There were about 100 activists still living in the building, she said, but they treated with understanding our request that they should vacate the premises.
Torhovets said that Euromaidan activists had agreed to leave the city hall’s building after they had been mentioned in media reports in the context of seizures by pro-Russian separatists of administrative buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.