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Poroshenko says Normandy format to be activated in near future

Published May 22, 2017 at 10:54 am

Foreign ministers of the so-called Normandy format (L to R) Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel pose for a photographer ahead talks at the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, southern Germany, on Feb. 18.

Photo by AFP/ POOL / Sven Hoppe

BERLIN – The work in the Normandy format (Ukraine, Germany, France, Russia) will be activated in the near future, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“We are sure that as there is no alternative to the Minsk process, the Normandy format will be actively involved in the near future too,” he said after an official visit to Germany on May 20.