USPA NEWS - Sergey Lavrov said he was in favor of a meeting of the Russian, Ukrainian, French and German governments to negotiate a way out of the crisis in Ukraine. On one condition: the respect of the agreements concluded in 2016 in Minsk.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed on August 15, during the All-Russia Youth Forum "Territory of the Senses", that Moscow was in favor of a meeting in Normandy format aimed at providing solutions to the Ukrainian crisis. According to the head of Russian diplomacy, the condition sine qua non at this meeting, which would include the French, Russian, Ukrainian and German diplomats, is that the agreements previously concluded in October 2016 in Minsk are respected. "We will firmly defend, on the world stage, the need to implement the Minsk agreements. We will be ready to meet in the Normandy format, but to do this, it is first necessary to accomplish what the leaders [...] agreed on almost three years ago, "Sergei Lavrov said. At a meeting in Normandy format (which brings together Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany) in October 2016, agreements had been concluded, including a ceasefire in Donbass. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ..

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