KYIV. Sept 18 (Interfax) - The signing by the advisors to the leaders of the countries involved in the Normandy-format talks of agreements on legislation on special local self-government procedures in Donetsk and Luhansk and the disengagement at three sites on the line of contact are the preconditions whose implementation will open the path toward a meeting between the Normandy format leaders, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said.
"The advisors agreed that they would recommend the leaders that they meet at the moment when two preconditions are implemented. The first precondition is: there has to be a written document confirming - no, it's not the Steinmeier formula [...] It says clearly: the legislation takes effect at the moment elections are held [in Donbas], but it takes effect completely at the moment the OSCE says that the elections passed honestly, openly, and transparently. Don't invent anything besides that, there is nothing else there. This position has to be agreed upon between all parties and returned to the leaders in writing. And this is what opens the path [toward a meeting between the leaders of the countries involved in the Normandy format]," Prystaiko said in Kyiv on Wednesday, when asked by Interfax what could open the path toward a Normandy-format summit.
"The second precondition is disengagement at three testing sites [...], namely, Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote, and, Petrivske. There are no other preconditions for a meeting between the leaders at present," he said.