9 Apr 2015 12:40

Lavrov confirms plans to meet with Normandy Quartet counterparts in Berlin on April 13

MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that he plans to meet with his counterparts from the other members of the Normandy Quartet (France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine) in Berlin on April 13.

"We will meet in the Normandy format at the ministerial level in Berlin on Monday," Lavrov told journalists in Moscow on Thursday.

"We are calling - and will keep doing it ever more insistently - on the Kyiv authorities, as well as on France and Germany as guarantors of the Minsk agreements along with us, to put pressure on the Ukrainian government to make it implement what their president signed," Lavrov said.