17:30 11.02.2016

'Normandy Four' foreign ministers to meet in Munich on Feb 13 – Ukrainian FM spokesperson

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'Normandy Four' foreign ministers to meet in Munich on Feb 13 – Ukrainian FM spokesperson

The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia, the so-called Normandy Four, are planning to meet in Munich, Germany, on February 13, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maryana Betsa has said.

"We are planning such a meeting on the 13th on the sidelines of the Munich conference," she said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

In her words, the major subject on the ministers' agenda will be "the entire range of the implementation of the Minsk agreements."

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin announced plans on February 5 to hold the meeting in Munich on February 13.

On February 11, Director of the ministry's department for politics and communications Oleksiy Makeyev confirmed in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine that the four countries' foreign ministers would meet in Munich on February 13.

Later France's Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert said that it was not clear who would represent France at the meeting in connection with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius' resignation. In his words, a new minister is expected to be appointed on Thursday evening.

Ripert said he did not know the new minister's name but expressed the opinion that France's new foreign minister would not change that country's course within the Normandy format. "It is the president of the Republic and the government who determine the policy, and I don't think that the new minister will change that course," he said.

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