MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The meeting was made official on Wednesday during a phone conversation between Quartet leaders French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The four discussed the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
The four countries' foreign ministers — Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, France's Laurent Fabius and Ukraine's Pavlo Klimkin — will focus on political aspects of the February Minsk agreements, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On Thursday, Lavrov and Steinmeier discussed preparations for the Saturday ministerial meeting.
The leaders of the four countries are expected to meet in Paris on October 2, at the invitation of the French president, according to the Elysee Palace.
The Normandy Four was created in 2014 to secure a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In February, the group worked out a ceasefire deal in Minsk, Belarus, signed by Kiev and the Donbass militias.