Yermak expects Normandy format meeting to take place in coming months

17.06.2020 17:22

Ukrinform

Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak expects that the meeting of the Normandy format leaders may take place in the coming months, but all the agreements reached at the Paris summit must be fulfilled first.

"First of all, we need to fulfill everything that the leaders agreed on in Paris. I believe that Ukraine has done everything to ensure that this is done in a short period of time provided the political will of the other side. I think that a meeting of the Normandy format leaders may take place this year, in the coming months," Yermak said in an interview with LB.ua Ukrainian media outlet.

The Head of the President's Office is convinced that the Ukrainian people want peace most of all - in the interests of Ukraine and on the terms of Ukraine.

Yermak stressed that this peace implies the end of the war, the return of Ukrainian territories and Ukrainian people.

"Therefore, if the Normandy format meeting takes place, there should be an agreement with a specific outline of this peace, with specific timeline," Yermak stressed.

However, he clarified that a request for a meeting from any of the four participants in the format may be made only after it can be said that all the Paris summits agreements have been fulfilled.

On December 9, 2019, a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four - Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia - took place in Paris. The leaders agreed to continue working in the Normandy format and to hold the next summit at the highest level in four months.