"Very good news. The Council of Europe and Secretary General Jagland fully support the process, ”spokesman for the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Daniel Holtgen wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, Macron, during a meeting with Putin, said that he would like to "give the dynamics" to the process of resolving the conflict in Ukraine "in the near future" and considers it necessary to hold a meeting of the Norman format.

Putin said that there is no alternative to this format. According to him, he always believed that any meeting should lead to concrete results.

The talks between Putin and Macron took place on August 19 at Fort Bregancon, they lasted more than 3.5 hours.