Normandy Quartet foreign ministers to meet in Berlin

Foreign ministers of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France will hold another meeting in Berlin on Wednesday in a bid to make a breakthrough in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis on the backdrop of dramatic aggravation of the situation in eastern Ukraine in the recent days, TASS reported.

Russian diplomat Viktor Sorokin, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s second CIS countries department, will represent Russia at a meeting of political directors of the four countries to be held ahead of the Normandy Quartet’s ministerial meeting.

It will be the second meeting of the Normandy Quartet’s foreign ministers in January. After their previous meeting on January 12, the ministers came out with a joint statement urging parties to the conflict to completely fulfill the Minsk agreements of the Contact Group and strictly observe the ‘regime of silence’ in the conflict zone declared on December 9, 2013.
Sona Martirosyan