Normandy Four Group Foreign Ministers will come to Paris on Tuesday to evaluate the progress on the Minsk ceasefire deal for Ukraine.
It will run together with a meeting of the so-called Trilateral Contact Group – an assembly of envoys from Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) – that will gather in the Belarus capital Minsk. New additions will be a Red Cross official and OSCE’s new envoy Martin Sajdik, of Austria, Sputnik News reports.
It should be noted that the meeting is to take place against a backdrop of strained relations between Russia and the European Union, whose foreign policy chiefs voted on Monday to extend sanctions against Moscow until the end of January 2016.