Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has denied the existence of the agreements not to expand the Normandy Format talks on the crisis in Ukraine at the expense of the U.S., which was allegedly reached on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference last week.

The minister said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) (ZN.UA) that in fact they didn't agree on anything like that and this "arrangement" is a myth. "This is a myth that somehow everyone has picked up. In fact, no one was negotiating anything of the kind in Munich. The issue of the Normandy format was not raised at any at any of the separate meetings. As far as I understand, when Tillerson held meetings, including with Gabriel, he said that now at the moment the Normandy format is functioning the way it is," Klimkin said.

According to the foreign minister, the U.S. is ready to look at the ways to participate in the negotiating process.

As reported, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said summing up the talks with U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson that the format of the Normandy Quartet (Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia) on the Donbas settlement will not be expanded. "We talked to U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson about the format's expansion. We have agreed on the contacts with the U.S. But we believe that the existing format should be preserved. The U.S. has agreed to that," Gabriel said.