Normandy Four leaders should meet to develop new preconditions for Donbas settlement – Macron

France is ready for a new meeting of the leaders of the Normandy format (Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia), where new prerequisites for the settlement of the situation in Ukraine's east should be developed, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.

"I would like to note that France is ready to continue efforts in the Normandy format and we are ready to hold a new discussion within the Normandy format," Macron said in Paris on Monday at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

"We intend to continue the Minsk process... We support the idea of the possibility of active cooperation in the Normandy format with the involvement of the OSCE. This is what I have offered to all the parties," the French president added.

According to him, he told Poroshenko that during their next meeting in the Normandy format, they could lay down a series of conditions for all the parties to offer concrete solutions to overcome the crisis. "France together with Germany are extremely involved in this process and insists on the development of these agreements and their implementation," Macron said.

According to the French president, he does not want the discussion on the implementation of the Minsk agreements to end in nothing. He stressed that he spoke about this with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "And in the coming days, in the next few weeks, we will try to work seriously on this with German Chancellor Angela Merkel," Macron added.