Minsk consensus has helped to keep supervision over the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, However, the risk of resumption of hostilities as long as there is, said on the first day of the week in an interview with a Polish newspaper, foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. in the Polish capital on the first day of the week will be another Polish-German intergovernmental meeting will be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister of Poland ewa kopacz, as well as the Ministers of both governments, as well as among them the head of the foreign Ministry. In addition, Merkel will hold dialogues with the President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski. The parties also intend to discuss the situation in Ukraine. "The Minsk agreement has helped to keep supervision over the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Today it guarantee the ceasefire, which is observed to a greater extent, and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from buffer zone. Now the story is about, to speed up the onset of the political process - as provided by the agreement in Minsk, which is a plan of action in the direction of discharge of the Ukrainian fall, " said Steinmeier. "It is also true that the risk of re-escalation of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine has not yet averted," said Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany. According to Steinmeier, " a re-escalation of the separatists, the development of large-scale offensive operations in Mariupol or elsewhere in Eastern Ukraine will not remain without reaction of the European Union ". first Warsaw suggested many times suffered dialogues on the settlement in Eastern Ukraine in Geneva format ", that is, with the assistance of the USA, and also with the participation of Poland, as a neighbouring Russia and Ukraine in the country. However, the Minister for foreign Affairs of Germany said in an interview that he sees no alternatives as long as the " channel format "." This format, as its name implies, originated during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy. Now it's the only format in which Moscow and Kiev is ready to hold dialogues with each other. Now I don't see any other viable alternatives to it, " said Steinmeier in an interview to the edition. According to the head of the German foreign Ministry, he is "in constant contact" with his Polish counterpart Grzegorz Chatenoy on the issue about the situation in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the Parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.