Klimkin says Normandy format ministerial meeting may take place at G20

Published Feb. 9, 2017 at 11:37 am

(FILES) Foreign Ministers (L-R) Jean-Marc Ayrault of France, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Pavlo Klimkin of Ukraine pose for a family photo prior to their talks on the Ukraine conflict in Minsk on November 29, 2016.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is considering different options of the meeting in Normandy format, including on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Feb. 17.

“We are holding consultations now with the German and French friends regarding the arrangement of a meeting. Maybe, it will be a meeting at the level of foreign ministers. Now several options are being considered. One of them is a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 on February 17,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in Kyiv on Feb. 9.