KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine's foreign minister and presidential administration deputy head are set to discuss organizing another Normandy format meeting on settling the conflict in eastern Ukraine with European head of state assistant-level officials, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday.
"The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and the presidential administration Deputy Head Kostiantyn Yeliseyev are traveling to Europe to hold talks at the level of assistants to heads of state and governments on preparing a possible Normandy format meeting," he said.
In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, after talks of the Normandy Four countries, comprising Russia, Germany, Ukraine and France. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics.
