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Meeting in Normandy format depends on contact group progress

Published Jan. 30, 2015 at 2:52 pm

Ukrainian servicemen prepare their ammunition at a position on the frontline near the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on January 26, 2015.

Photo by AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLII BOIKO

A meeting in Astana in the "Normandy format" will only be possible after progress is achieved in the trilateral contact group, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

“It is only possible if progress is achieved in the trilateral contact group,” Olena Zerkal, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister on European integration issues, told a briefing in Kyiv on Jan. 30.