MINSK, 29 November (BelTA – TASS) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are holding a bilateral meeting in Minsk after the Normandy Four talks.
Before flying over to Minsk, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that he intends to discuss Syria with Sergei Lavrov, and the situation around Aleppo in particular.
As BelTA reported, Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov, Pavlo Klimkin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault arrived in Minsk to participate in the talks. Attending were also OSCE's special representative in the trilateral contact group on Ukraine Martin Sajdik, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan, and OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug.
The agreement to hold the meeting of the Normandy Four foreign ministers in November was reached by the Normandy Four presidents: Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting in Berlin on 19 October.
