The participants of the "Norman" summit Ukraine have initiated conversations in an expanded format.
The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine centuries Putin, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Petro Poroshenko met in Minsk on dialogues on Ukrainian settlement. The meeting began with a restricted meeting, from time to time in the meeting room came the members of the delegations.
In parallel, in Minsk with the mediation of the OSCE and Russia are dialogues authorized parties of the Ukrainian opposition in the contact group. According to the results of all Minsk parties will sign a certain document, said first foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei.
Before beginning negotiations Poroshenko and Merkel about something talked, posed for the press and smiled. Putin, who entered the hall, talking with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, almost immediately took a seat at the table.
in General, it was essential that the atmosphere on the results of the negotiations conducted in the narrow part, was not much more tense. For example, Poroshenko has not looked so concentrated as in the beginning of the conversation. Before extended negotiations, the German Chancellor also had time to test your own mobile phone.
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