At a press conference after joint talks on June 2, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that they had agreed to accelerate the implementation of agreements reached at the Normandy meeting in Paris in December 2019, a diplomatic process involving Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France to end fighting in eastern Ukraine. Kuleba also stated that it was important for Ukraine and its international partners to discuss “an international platform for Crimea”, underlining that the issue of Crimea remains a priority for Ukraine until the deoccupation of the entire region.
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People hold placards with portraits of Ukrainian citizens jailed in Crimea and Russia during their action "Mr. President, talk to us" outside the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on May 21, 2020. Relatives of the prisoners demand that president Zelensky should implement his promise to exchange the prisoners "one-on-one" and return them back to Ukraine.
