OSCE chair hopes for success of Normandy-format meeting

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak has said he hopes that the meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries in December will give a strong impetus to the latest positive developments in Ukraine.

He wrote this on his Twitter account.

"I welcome the announcement to hold the meeting of the leaders in Normandy format in Paris this December. I hope this meeting will give a strong boost to the recent positive developments," Lajcak said.

A summit with the participation of the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia (the so-called Normandy Four) is due to take place in Paris on December 9.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he intended to raise at this meeting the issue of specific terms of Donbas de-occupation, the return of hostages, the resolution of the security situation, and local elections.

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