Both leaders have called a special meeting “in a matter of hours” of the Trilateral Contact Group, made up of Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This was agreed in a phone call this Sunday.
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have agreed this Sunday on a emergency effort to reinstate the Stop the fire in eastern Ukraine and end the upsurge in fighting between the Ukrainian Army and the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which adds to the current tension in the area due to the accumulation of Russian troops on the border.
Both leaders have called a special meeting “within hours” of the Trilateral Contact Groupformed by Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), according to a statement from the Elysee after the telephone call between the two leaders, this Sunday.
In the note, the Elysee points out that both Putin and Macron have agreed on “the need to favor a diplomatic solution to the current crisis and do everything possible to achieve it.
In addition, intense diplomatic work will begin in the coming days “to hold, if the conditions are right, a meeting at the highest level with a view to defining a new order of peace and security in Europe”, added the French Presidency before announce a new meeting in the next few days between the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
According to the Elysee statement, “taking into account the seriousness of the situation, the presidents considered it convenient to intensify the search for solutions through diplomatic channels through the foreign ministries and the political advisers of the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format (France, Ukraine, Russia and Germany)”.
This Sunday it was also announced that, at the request of Ukraine, the Polish government has called an extraordinary meeting of the permanent council of the OSCE for this coming Monday, as announced by the permanent representative of Warsaw to the organization, Adam Halacinski, on his Twitter account.
Source: Eitb
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