MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said Thursday they intended to continue working in the Normandy Four format to settle the crisis in Ukraine until the Minsk agreements were implemented.
"Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande explicitly support the agreement of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on a comprehensive ceasefire throughout the conflict zone… They reaffirmed their commitment to continue working together with Ukraine and Russia in the ‘Normandy format’ to the full implementation of the Minsk agreements," the leaders said as quoted by the German federal government.
The Normandy Four, comprising Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, was established in the summer of 2014 in order to help settle the Ukrainian crisis.