Talks between Normandy Four FMs held for 4.5 hours

Published June 12, 2018 at 9:42 am

(Archive photo) (L-R) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov react as they prepare to pose for a picture at Villa Borsig in Berlin on June 11, 2018, ahead of a Normandy Format meeting on the conflict in Ukraine.

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The foreign ministerial meeting of the Normandy Four ended in Berlin late on June 11.

According to an Interfax correspondent, the meeting lasted four-and-a-half hours.

The meeting itself was held behind closed doors.

This was the first meeting of the Normandy Four foreign ministers since February 2017.

Normandy Four is a group of high-ranking representatives of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, which was established in June 2014 to resolve the situation in Donbas. Meetings in the Normandy format can be held at the level of heads of state and at the level of foreign ministers.