Media: Putin and Poroshenko shake hands before a meeting in Minsk
The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin before the summit, "channel" four shook hands and exchanged a few words with his Ukrainian counterpart, Petr Poroshenko, footage of the meeting were broadcast in the broadcast television channel " Russia-1 ".
When the leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia gathered in one hall, Putin exchanged with Poroshenko hands and said a few words. Then began legal shooting. Putin sat in the chair opposite Poroshenko. Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel resettles on the same sofa between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine.
at that time, on the sidelines of the negotiations of the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier something was talking with his French counterpart.
The summit is taking place in Minsk in the continuation of contacts initiated by the French President and the German Chancellor last Thursday: then the two European leaders have been in Kiev for talks with President of Ukraine, and the next day visited Moscow and met with the head of the Russian Federation, on a Sunday telephone conversation was held all 4 of Directors.
The meeting was prepared in the process of their contacts Deputy Ministers of foreign Affairs 4 countries, in addition, it was preceded by the meeting of the contact group on settlement in the Donbass.