This is stated in the message, published on the site of the Elysee Palace.
It is noted that the five heads of state and government exchanged assessments of the “situation that created tensions between Russia and Ukraine, expressed their determination to seek observance of the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state “and” declared their commitment to action to maintain peace and security in Europe. “
Context:
Straightaway after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted within the framework of the trilateral contact group (TCG, Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and the Normandy Four (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia). Minsk has become a meeting place TCG in 2014. Now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, TCG meetings are being held in the format of a video link.
February 12, 2015 in Minsk the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel during 17-hour talks agreed on two documents on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass: a declaration on the implementation of the Minsk agreements and a set of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. They provided for the cessation of hostilities in the Donbass, the withdrawal of illegal armed groups from the region, the creation of conditions for holding elections to local authorities, etc. So far, the Minsk agreements have not been implemented.
On December 9, 2019, the last summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four was held in Paris. Its final communiqué states that the parties agreed on a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the “all for all” formula until December 31, 2019, the disengagement of forces and assets in three new areas in the Donbass, the extension of the law “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas” for a year Donetsk and Luhansk regions “and the expansion of the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission.
Arrangements were partially implemented… The next summit was expected to take place in 2020, but this did not happen.
Russia refuses to participate in negotiations in the Normandy format, they say in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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