Lavrov: 'Normandy Four' talks on Ukraine in Paris were ‘fruitful'
A meeting of foreign ministers of the so-called Normandy Quartet on ways to resolve the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine was 'fruitful,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday, Sputnik reported.
Top diplomats from Russia, France, Ukraine and Germany held on Tuesday three-hour consultations for the first time since the Normandy Quartet summit in Minsk on February 12 that lead to a new ceasefire in the contested Donbas region of Ukraine.
"It was a useful meeting," Lavrov told reporters in a brief comment without further deliberation.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klymkin said after the Paris meeting that the participants had agreed on ‘important technicalities’ of supporting the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, while French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stressed that the Normandy Quartet ministers had called for providing additional equipment and financing for the mission.