Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, said on Monday he intends to meet January 15 with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
The meeting, part of efforts to seek a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine’s east, would take place in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, Poroshenko announced at a press conference in Kyiv.
“The foreign ministers of the ‘Normandy format’ countries have been given instructions to prepare the agenda and draft resolutions for this summit,” said Poroshenko, referring to a similar quadripartite meeting earlier this year in France.
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Source: Voice of America
