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US Talks With Russia, Hopes to Access Normandy Four Info on Ukraine

© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi / Go to the mediabankOctober 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (right), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (near center), and French President Francois Hollande (far center) during a meeting in the "Normandy" format on the sidelines of the ASEM Summit
October 17, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (right), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (near center), and French President Francois Hollande (far center) during a meeting in the Normandy format on the sidelines of the ASEM Summit - Sputnik International
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Talks on Ukrainian settlement between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov touched on the issue of Washington receiving up-to-date information on the Normandy Quartet process on Ukrainian reconciliation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

From the left : Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) Talks on Ukrainian settlement between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov touched on the issue of Washington receiving up-to-date information on the Normandy Quartet process on Ukrainian reconciliation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

Surkov and Nuland held talks last week in Russia's westernmost city of Kaliningrad. Following the talks, Surkov said that some topics put forward during the meeting, including constitutional reform in Ukraine, might be discussed at a meeting of the Normandy Four, comprising Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.

"Regarding these talks, in this case we are talking about dialogue at the expert level between Moscow and Washington. As you know, the United States is not party to the Normandy process, at the same time, of course everyone is interested in the United States having the opportunity to receive firsthand information, [despite] not being a member of the Normandy process," Peskov told reporters.

Kiev authorities launched a military operation against independence militias in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in April 2014. The confrontation has claimed over 9,000 lives, according to UN estimates.

The Normandy Four was created in 2014 to secure a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In February 2015, the quartet's leaders brokered the Minsk peace deal, later signed by representatives of Kiev and the militias of eastern Ukraine.

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