17:26 03.06.2016

Poroshenko insists that agreement was reached in 'Normandy format' on sending OSCE police mission to Donbas

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Poroshenko insists that agreement was reached in 'Normandy format' on sending OSCE police mission to Donbas

The "Normandy Four" countries have reached an agreement on the issue of sending an OSCE police mission to Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"Today we have a serious diplomatic success because we have reached an agreement on sending this mission not only in the "Normandy format," on the top level, but our German partners began a discussion on the issue of sending a police mission [to eastern Ukraine] already in Vienna under German chairmanship [in the OSCE]," Poroshenko told a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.

The president emphasized that these events give him reason to be cautiously optimistic, "and that became a basis for me to say that we may complete this process in 2016."

"Unfortunately, we lost three months after that statement, but the process is going on very actively,' he said.

In the meantime, the Kremlin has denied Ukraine's allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his consent to the deployment in Donbas of some armed police mission of the OSCE in "Normandy Four" contacts.

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