President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZelenskyKYIV, Jan 26Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that there is no specific agenda for the meeting of advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four on Wednesday, Kiev intends to discuss the resumption of the regime of silence in the Donbass and humanitarian issues. The advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four will meet on Wednesday in Paris. Earlier, information appeared in the German press that at a meeting of advisers to the leaders of the Normandy format, they want to «determine the date when Ukraine will hold talks» with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics on the special status of Donbass.
The United States will not take part in the Normandy format meeting at the level of advisers»At the moment, there is no specific agenda for today's meeting. I can say what the Ukrainian delegation plans to talk about. We will talk about the resumption of the full ceasefire, which, unfortunately, works with great violations. We will talk about humanitarian issues, the opening of checkpoints and the future work of the Normandy format. The position of Ukraine, which has been expressed many times at different levels, is unchanged, it meets Ukrainian interests. There have been and will not be any direct negotiations with the separatists,» he wrote. Yermak on Facebook. He said that such fabrications about negotiations with representatives of the DPR and LPR appear in the media thanks to manipulators. «I would like to remind them: in the Normandy format, only leaders of states have the right to approve any documents. Everything else is consultation points. Today we will defend the Ukrainian position … Let those who are involved in the creation of these fakes go and draw on their foreheads red lines, and in our country they, like Ukrainian interests, are sewn into the back. Any insinuations or manipulations are insinuations and manipulations of people interested in disrupting negotiations,» Yermak said.
