Kuleba said that Ukraine is going to Berlin with a “constant position” – UNIAN
The Minister stressed that there could be no direct talks with ORDLO.
Kuleba commented on the upcoming meeting of H4 / REUTERS employees
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba emphasizes that at the meeting in the “Norman format” at the level of advisers to the leaders of the state, the Ukrainian delegation will leave with a “fixed position”.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, he said this on the air talk show “Right to Power”.
“I have just come to you directly from the Office of the President, where the President had another conversation with the President of France. This is the second conversation in a week. This is the level of contacts, their dynamics are very intense. I continue to coordinate positions. position in the negotiations with Russia, “Kuleba said in response to questions about the second round of talks between the workers of the head of state in the Normandy format.
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“A regular meeting of Norman-format workers will take place in Berlin … We will go there with the same position: security, then the political part. And no direct talks with ORDLO,” he said.
According to sources, on the eve of the last talks, political advisers to the leaders of the “Norman Four” of the German media reported that at the meeting on January 26 I want to “determine the date when Ukraine is negotiating with separatists on the special status of Donbass.” Ukraine has denied this.
It should be noted that a meeting of advisers to the leaders of the “Norman format” is scheduled for next week. At the previous meeting, the head of the OPU Andriy Yermak took part from the Ukrainian side. On February 3, it became known that he had contracted the coronavirus.
Normandy format: what is known about the last meeting of employees
As UNIAN reported, a meeting of political workers of the “Quartet of Normandy” took place on January 26 in Paris. It lasted more than eight hours. The OPU explained the reason for the delay.
The head of the Office of President Andriy Ermak called the meeting of workers of the country’s leaders “Norman format” a resuscitation of this format of negotiations.
As a result of the meetings, a joint communiqué was agreed and the next meeting was agreed in two weeks in Berlin. The agreed communiqué was the first agreed with the 2019 document.
On February 1, Volodymyr Zelenskyi of Ukraine expressed hope that in the coming days there will be an agreement on a meeting of the leaders of the “Quartet of Normandy”.
The last leaders of the “Quartet of Normandy” gathered for a video conference in November 2020. Prior to that, they met in Paris in December 2019 after a three-year break. After Paris, the new one was planned to be held in Berlin, but it never took place.