'Normandy Format' FMs meet in Berlin

Record ID: 104017

  • Title: 'Normandy Format' FMs meet in Berlin
  • Date: 11th May 2016
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 11, 2016) (REUTERS) GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER, FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER, WALKING OUT WITH FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER, JEAN-MARC AYRAULT, AND UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, PAVLO KLIMKIN STEINMEIER WITH AYRAULT AND KLIMKIN, JOINED BY RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEI LAVROV EXTERIOR OF TALKS VENUE 'VILLA BORSIG' FOREIGN MINISTERS POSING FOR PHOTOS, WALKING BACK INTO BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 26th May 2016 11:04
  • Keywords: Normandy Quartet Russia Germany France Ukraine Steinmeier
  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • City: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014HD5CNB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steinmeier received his Ukrainian, French and Russian counterparts for a new round of 'Normandy Format' talks in Berlin on Wednesday (April 11).
    Ministers are expected to focus on local elections in eastern Ukraine.
    The Normandy Format 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.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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