Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L to R) attend "Normandy four summit" in Paris, France, Dec. 9, 2019. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
Moscow expects new agreements on the exchange of prisoners, Lavrov said.
MOSCOW, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France confirmed the implementation of just one point of the nine-point agreements reached at the Normandy Four summit in Paris on the Ukrainian settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
"I mean the exchange of held persons," Lavrov said at a press conference after an online conference with his Normandy Four counterparts.
He recalled that a total of 230 people were exchanged in December and April between Kiev and Donbass.
Moscow expects new agreements on the exchange of prisoners, Lavrov said.
Russia also hopes that Kiev will lift the blockade of the rebel regions as soon as possible, he said.
At the summit of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine, known as the Normandy Four, in Paris on Dec. 9, 2019, the parties issued a joint declaration and agreed to meet four months later in Berlin in order to continue work on resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine.
The declaration envisaged an updated demining plan, a ceasefire in the region by the end of the year and a separation of forces by the end of March 2020, a withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the demarcation line, a prisoner exchange and local elections, among other measures. ■
