“I can’t say that the agenda has been agreed. This is a process, and a very complex one,” Andrei Kelin said during a video uplink.
On Monday Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia had reached an agreement to hold a contact group meeting in Minsk on December 24 and 26.
The Contact Group on Ukraine is a group of representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE seeking to facilitate a diplomatic resolution to the conflict between the Ukraine central government and the independence supporters of the country's southeast.
The September 5 Contact Group meeting in Minsk led to a ceasefire agreement between the conflicting sides. They have, however, repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.
Last week Poroshenko announced that a resumption of Contact Group talks on the Ukraine crisis would take place on December 21 but this meeting did not occur.
