The meeting of the "Norman Four" in Munich finally broke

The meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Norman Four - Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, which since November 2016 have not been going to discuss the settlement of the conflict in the Donbass - was supposed to take place in the fields of the International Security Conference in Munich, but fell, writes Kommersant .

According to the publication, the reason for the breakdown was an urgent return to Berlin, the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Foreign Affairs Sigmara Gabriel, who flew to the capital of Germany this morning. It was preliminarily planned that the ministers of the Four countries would meet on Friday evening, but until the last moment it was not known whether the meeting would take place.

It is now obvious that there will be no negotiations in Munich in the format of the Norman Four. Today, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will make a speech at the Russian conference, hold a number of bilateral negotiations and go to Moscow closer to the evening.

According to Lavrov, he and the Ukrainian colleague Pavel Klimkin "discussed everything in detail." “Therefore, I don’t even know, to get together, not to get together. If the Germans are ready, then we are also ready, ”said the head of the Russian foreign policy to reporters.