MOSCOW, September 07 /ITAR-TASS/. The Contact Group on Ukraine, which had its latest meeting in Minsk on Friday, may meet in an extended format at the end of next week, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko said on Sunday.

“A preliminary agreement was to meet again in a span of seven to eight days,” he said in an interview with the Kommersant FM radio station. “They will voice their suggestions. According to preliminary agreements, it will be an extended meeting. The Ukrainian presidential staff will commission some people. So far, I do not know who it will be - the list is being agreed. In any case, Donetsk and Lugank will send [First Deputy Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic Andrei] Purgin and [speaker of the Supreme Council of the Lugansk People’s Republic Alexei] Karyakin.”

Zakharchenko said he would decide whether to take part in the next Contact Group meeting after he learned who would represent Ukraine. He also said that Russia’s Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov was also expected to take part in the extended meeting.

At its meeting in the Belarusian capital city Minsk on Friday, the Contact Group on the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine adopted a peace plan and a ceasefire agreement. Attending the meeting were officials from Kiev, representatives of the embattled south-eastern regions of Ukraine, officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russia.