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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin next week will meet with the foreign ministers of the Normandy format countries – Germany, France and Russia, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said.

“Political items of the Minsk agreements can be implemented only after the obvious and undeniable progress in security matters. And elections at the Russian gunpoint […] are absolutely unacceptable and inadmissible. These are the issues Pavlo Klimkin will go with to discuss at the ministerial meeting in Normandy format next week,” Poroshenko said in Ivano-Frankivsk on Feb. 10.