No clarity about date, venue of meeting of Normandy Quartet deputy foreign ministers - diplomat

MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax) - No decision has yet been made on a date and venue of a meeting of deputy foreign ministers from the Normandy Quartet countries (France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine), Russian State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said.

"There is no clarity so far about the time and venue of such a meeting," Karasin said in a telephone interview with Interfax.

"This issue is being discussed," he added.

Asked whether he himself is ready to take part in such a meeting, Karasin said, "I am always ready."