The meeting will focus on the release of our hostages and our political prisoners. This is on Monday, January 22, in Kiev at a press conference on the results of Ukrainian diplomacy in 2017 and priorities for 2018, said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavel Klimkin.

He also recalled that it was to these two issues that his last conversation with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was devoted. We talked about that during the Munich Conference on Security to meet in the "Norman format" at the ministerial level.

So far, unfortunately, there is no clear vision as to the results of this meeting, "explained Klimkin, adding that he will discuss this matter with German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel on Monday and with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Dreen on Tuesday.

Recall, the 54th Munich Security Conference will be held on February 16-18, 2018.

As reported URA-Inform, the last meeting of the heads of state of the "Norman Quartet" was held in Berlin on October 20, 2016, and the last meeting of the Foreign Ministers in the "Norman format" was held on February 18, 2017.