Normandy format

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Since June 2014, the term Normandy Format , also known as the Normandy Quartet , has referred to a semi-official quadrilateral contact group, primarily at government and foreign minister level, between Russia , Germany , France and Ukraine on issues related to the Ukraine conflict . Representatives of the pro-Russian separatists are not officially involved.

designation

The designation comes from a four-way meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko , Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French colleague François Hollande on the occasion of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy in northern France .

Normandy Format Meeting , Paris , 9 December 2019

To meet

  • June 6, 2014 in Normandy: Meeting of Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko and Putin, first meeting of the heads of state of Russia and Ukraine since the start of the Ukraine conflict
  • October 17, 2014 in Milan : The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting in Milan. In addition to Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko and Putin, other leading EU politicians were present. No result was reached at the meeting.
  • February 12, 2015 : Meeting of the four heads of state and government in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, led to the signing of Minsk II
  • October 2nd, 2015 : The four parties involved meet again to implement the Minsk peace plan. Local elections that pro-Russian separatists wanted to hold in eastern Ukraine were also discussed
  • May 11, 2016 : Meeting of the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine at the invitation of Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin
  • May 23, 2016 : Telephone call between the four parties
  • October 19, 2016 : Meeting at the invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to implement the Minsk Peace Plan
  • February 18, 2017 : Foreign ministers meet again on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference
  • December 9, 2019 : Meeting at the invitation of President Macron with the newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019 , German Chancellor Merkel and President Putin in Paris. At the meeting in the Élysée Palace , in addition to an exchange of prisoners, a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of the year and a further troop withdrawal in three other areas on a demarcation line by the end of March 2020 were agreed. A commitment to the so-called Steinmeier formula , a proposal going back to Frank-Walter Steinmeier to give the eastern Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk a special status and to hold elections there under OSCE observation, was formulated. As a result of the summit, a summary document entitled “Overall Agreed Conclusions of the Normandy Format Paris Summit of 9 December 2019” was signed.
  • January 27, 2022 : Envoys from the four nations (including Dmitry Kozak for Russia and Andriy Yermak for Ukraine) met in Paris. In a final declaration, Russia and Ukraine committed themselves to “consolidating” a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine agreed in 2020 and to a further meeting in February 2022 in Berlin. However, the OSCE had stated that ceasefire violations had only fallen by 70 percent at the beginning of 2022. During the meeting, Kosak complained that Ukraine was reacting negatively or not at all to contact attempts by the separatists in eastern Ukraine (the proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic ). He called on Ukraine to engage in dialogue with them. According to Kosak, the Ukrainian government has not presented any prospects for the contested parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In addition, the meeting in Berlin agreed in the final declaration would only take place subject to an agreement being reached beforehand on the planned legal status of the Donbass and on holding elections there.

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  1. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Berlin invites to Ukraine talks | DW | 04/30/2016. Retrieved November 18, 2021 (German).
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: The Normandy Format: Summit Meeting on the Ukraine Conflict. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 18, 2016, retrieved August 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ukraine: Normandy format meeting in Berlin. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Meeting in the Normandy format in Munich. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ukraine summit in Paris: Participants agree on ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019 . In: Mirror Online . 10 December 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed 10 December 2019]).
  6. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: East Ukraine conflict: How Frank-Walter Steinmeier wants to create peace. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Agreed conclusions of the Paris Summit in Normandy format of December 9, 2019 on the official website of the President of Ukraine of December 10, 2019; retrieved December 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  8. ^ "Normandy Format" on Donbass conflict: Russia urges Ukraine to engage in dialogue with separatists . In: The Mirror . January 27, 2022, ISSN  2195-1349 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 27, 2022]).