Lavrov says Geneva format of talks on Ukraine a closed chapter

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the Geneva format (Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU) of talks on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine is now a “closed chapter.”
He said this in the Russian State Duma on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reported.
“The Geneva format is a closed chapter, because it was useful to a certain extent when there was no direct dialogue between Kyiv and the southeast. Now this dialogue has been established. It would be a crime to destroy it,” Lavrov said.
On November 18, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said in a joint press statement with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier that the Geneva format of negotiations was the most acceptable one for settling the Ukrainian crisis.
On the same day, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Steinmeier discussed in Kyiv the possibility of holding talks on resolving the situation in Donbas in the Weimar format – with the participation of Germany, Poland and France.

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