Russia waiting for Normandy format partners' response to proposals re content of next meeting - Lavrov

MOSCOW. Nov 1 (Interfax) - Russia has made proposals regarding the content of the next meeting in the Normandy format to the partners, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"We see a meaning not in a certain event but in its content. Our proposals regarding ways to prepare a substantive contact in the Normandy format - it does not matter on what level - have been conveyed to our colleagues, and we are waiting for their response," Lavrov told the TV crew of journalist Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya 1 channel (VGTRK).

"Because they call for the soonest meeting but have not relayed their vision of the expected results just yet," Lavrov said.

The Elysee Palace said on October 11, following phone talks of German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that a ministerial meeting in the Normandy format might be held in the coming weeks.