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Kuleba seeks "substantive conversation" with Lavrov on Donbas settlement
['Yevgeny Matyushenko']
News Agency UNIAN
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says he wants to have a substantive conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding the Donbas settlement. Speaking at a joint press conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas in Berlin, Kuleba said: "I assured Heiko today that I'm ready for a substantive conversation with Foreign Minister Lavrov in the quadripartite Normandy format, both on security and political issues of settlement." "The purpose of the conversation was to encourage Minister Lavrov to take part in our quadripartite meeting in the Normandy format," Kuleba said.