The leaders of the 'Normandy Four' countries (France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia) will hold a telephone conversation in the near future, but they are not expected to meet in the short term, Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said.

"The information available to us indicates that what was meant is exactly a telephone conversation. And the French side has clarified to all those taking part in this that it is exactly a telephone conversation that was meant," he told reporters in Kyiv on Friday.

Any meeting of the 'Normandy Four' leaders is not being planned in the short term, the diplomat said.

"There will be no 'Normandy Four' [meeting] for now, but a Ukraine-France meeting will be held," Prystaiko said.

Ukraine has been holding meetings with all of the partners in these negotiations, except for Russia, he said.