Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the foreign Minister "channel four" have the opportunity to meet in new York during the session of the UN General Assembly.
"We are ready to meet again at the expert level, And Ministers. I do not exclude, And We are ready to meet in new York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, where We will all be present. Before the summit will be the meeting ", - said the Ukrainian Minister, RIA " Novosti ".
Klimkin also said that the international community has an obligation to assess the planned elections in the Donbass on the subject of whether they conform to international norms." When elections will be held in the territories that are currently occupied, is the issue of harmonization of the modalities And the question of understanding how We can provide that these elections will be free And fair. And We have objective criteria is the Bureau of democracy And human rights the OSCE is an international Commonwealth. It is obliged to say whether the basic criteria of the OSCE, the elections that will be prepared, And then We can start to discuss the date of the election process And so on, " drew the attention of the Ukrainian Minister. Before the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov positively assessed the past in Berlin dialogues of foreign Ministers in the Normandy format. For its part, Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walt Steinmeier said that the situation in the Ukrainian settlement has not become easier." But I Wish to inform you with some relief, that the dialogues were not much more confrontational than last time ", he said. Remember, the meeting began about 19. 00 local time (20. 00 GMT) And lasted more than three hours. On the agenda were, most importantly, the political aspects of the Minsk agreements. On the last working day of the week the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the last conversation in the Normandy format intensified his sense of cautious confidence.

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