Ukraine bends over backwards to implement Minsk deals – Poroshenko

11:30, 30.09.2015 1 min read

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine is doing its utmost to implement the Minsk agreements.

"Today my representative in the Trilateral Contact Group signed a new agreement on the withdrawal of arms from the contact line," he said while giving a speech to the students of Columbia University in New York.

Poroshenko said that a Normandy format meeting on settling the Donbas conflict will be held in Paris on October 2.

"On October 2 we'll have talks in the Normandy format in Paris. We have a detailed and coordinated plan of our expectations from the meeting. We will do our best to fulfil all the details of the Minsk agreements," he added.

As reported, the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk has signed an agreement on the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of less than 100mm from the contact line.