Poroshenko announces Normandy phone talks in July, to be followed by four leaders' summit

17:16, 09.07.2017 1 min read

A summit of the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and the Russian Federation may take place as early as this summer, after a phone conversation in the Normandy Four format is held, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"After my meeting and telephone conversations in Berlin, Paris, as well as meetings in Hamburg, understanding has been reached that a telephone conversation of the Normandy Four leaders is most likely to take place in July. And we do not rule out that we'll be able to arrange a summit following these phone talks. Its venue is still undecided, but we are determined to hold a decisive, accelerated, practical, detailed dialogue both in the telephone format and at the summit this summer," Poroshenko said at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Kyiv on Sunday.

According to the president, Ukraine is not interested in delaying such negotiations, because "Ukraine pays a high price - its heroes are wounded and killed" every day.