KYIV. Dec 9 (Interfax) - Achieving agreements on a Donbas ceasefire is the top priority of the upcoming Normandy Quartet (Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia) summit in Paris, Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.
"We are expecting the Normandy Format to create conditions for the Donbas ceasefire [...] The main goal that the president has set to himself is to stop the killing of people," Honcharuk said at a joint press briefing that he attended together with David McAllister, head of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, in Kyiv on Friday.
The focus may be "much broader than just the issue of ceasefire," Honcharuk assumed, adding that he would rather not be "fantasizing about various scenarios."
"I have no doubt that the Ukrainian president will be defending the national interest," he said.