The meeting of commissioners of the ministries of foreign Affairs of the countries of the so-called Norman Quartet - Russia, Germany, Ukraine and France - began on the first day of the week in Berlin, said Last news sources in the local diplomatic circles.

As first reported by the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin, the Russian Federation at the meeting will be Director of the second Department of the CIS countries, Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Viktor Sorokin, the parties will discuss a whole range of issues of Ukrainian fall, and among them Minsk consensus. The meeting is taking place in the German foreign office from the press in a closed mode.

according to the information of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Meeting in the channel format at the level of foreign Ministers will be held fifteen January in Astana. Karasin said that the timing of the meetings of Ministers of foreign Affairs depend on the forthcoming negotiations in Berlin.

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