VIENNA (Sputnik) – Deputy foreign ministers from the so-called Normandy Quartet, comprising Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, may hold their next meeting in late May, French Deputy Foreign Minister Nicolas de Riviere told RIA Novosti Friday.
"The meeting should take place in late May, possibly in Paris," he said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, ruled out on Wednesday any plans to hold meetings in the Normandy format.
At the last marathon talks between the four countries' heads of state in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in February, the sides reached a crucial deal that brought a ceasefire, albeit fragile, to southeast Ukraine.
Among the other 12 points outlined in the Minsk agreements, the conflicting sides were to pullout heavy weapons from the line of contact, conduct prisoner exchanges and a series of constitutional reforms decentralizing powers and granting greater autonomy to independence supporters in Ukraine's southeast.
