Merkel called on Putin to promote the “Normandy format” for the settlement in Donbass negotiations in the “Normandy format” to resolve the armed conflict in Donbass. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the German government.
“The Federal Chancellor [in a telephone conversation with Putin] also touched upon the security situation in the vicinity and in eastern Ukraine and called on the Russian President to promote negotiations in the“ Normandy format ” for the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the peaceful settlement of the conflict, “the Cabinet of Ministers said.
Earlier it was reported that Merkel announced the involvement of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in the migration crisis that erupted on the border with Poland.
< p> At the same time, Putin, in a conversation with Merkel, assessed the policy of Ukraine as destructive. “The destabilizing and dangerous nature of the provocative activity of the armed forces of the United States and a number of other NATO countries in the Black Sea was also noted,” the press service of the presidential administration reported.