(VOVworld) – Foreign Ministers of the “Normandy quartet” countries including Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France voiced a powerful support on Wednesday to the urgent withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact, stipulated in the Minsk Accords. After 3-hour talks in Berlin, they agreed to a demarcation line between the Kiev government and the opposition in eastern Ukraine.

Foreign Ministers of the “Normandy quartet” countries discuss the Ukrainian crisis. (Photo: EPA)

Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier said participants made "tangible progress" but not a “breakthrough” in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

According to their joint statement following the meeting, only progress on implementing the Minsk accords signed last September can create the possibility for a peace summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.