Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said the participants in the "Normandy Four" meeting in Berlin on Wednesday agreed on the need for the presence of "an international component" at the local elections in Donbas.

"We have agreed that the OSCE SMM can be such a component. We also discussed what the mandate of this mission can be, what the rules for this mission can be, and also the weapons component. I am happy that there is general understanding that this issue needs to be discussed further," he told reporter following he "Normandy Four" meeting in Berlin on Wednesday.