Klimkin: "channel" meeting of Ministers may take until the end of the week
Alexander Shishlo. The head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has not excluded on the first day of the week that the Ministerial meeting "channel four" on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass can be held before the end of this week.
"One of the options that the meeting will be held before the end of the week," he said after meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated before that the Russian Federation hopes to hold a meeting of foreign Ministers "channel four" in the near future, Moscow has made its proposals.
The format "channel four" in Ukraine was formed after a meeting in Normandy in the summer of 2014 at the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the allied landing. This Format of negotiations involves the participation of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, all in the field of victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.