Ze-office seeks a meeting with Putin and Merkel
Ukraine wants to hold direct negotiations with Russia, as well as meet in the “Normandy Format” at the level of state leaders, while outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel is still in power.
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Ermak said this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Ermak recalled that Merkel and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are the last heads of state who participated in the development and signing of the Minsk Agreements.
“The President himself called for these direct negotiations. He addressed the President of Russia, we remember this. And therefore I can say that, of course, it is important for this meeting, these negotiations to take place. But we hear from Russian officials - they are constantly either not satisfied, they will or will not discuss these issues, they are not ready to discuss these issues,” said the head of the president’s office.
“But it seems to me that our relations, if we can say so about them, are at a stage where it is simply necessary, if there is a desire, political will to stop the war, if there is a desire to comply with the norms of international law, respect international law, respect recognized borders, then you just need to sit down and talk about it. If such a desire were 100%, then we would already know the date and place of such negotiations,” the official believes.
“In parallel with this, consultations in the Normandy format continue. They are constantly – both video conferences and in real meetings between different parties... Today we are working to ensure that the meeting of the leaders of the “Normandy format” takes place before the end of Mrs. Merkel’s term. This would be very fair, because she did a lot for this and, in the end, we have only two witnesses out of four leaders who remember and were present during the signing of the Minsk agreements. Therefore, it is very important for us that such a meeting actually takes place,” Ermak said.
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