“We hope that Steinmeier’s formula will be finally agreed upon, and the Ukrainian side will officially fix this,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Along with this, he noted that such a development could become “one of the important achievements” of the meeting.
On September 18, a representative of Kiev at a meeting of the contact group refused to sign Steinmeier’s formula.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadim Pristayko explained the disagreement of Steinmeier’s formula with the technical misunderstanding that arose in the most tripartite contact group.