Putin's top foreign policy adviser Yury Ushakov said the Kremlin was working to put together a meeting that would also include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
"A meeting in the 'Normandy format' - Putin, Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko - is not ruled out," Ushakov told Russian news agencies.
The Kremlin "is now involved in this - possible contacts are being worked out."
Ushakov was referring to a landmark meeting between Putin and Poroshenko on the sidelines of D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy in June, shortly after Poroshenko was elected president on May 25.
The two leaders also met in the Belarussian capital Minsk in August, for one-on-one talks on the fighting in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.
In Kiev, an official in the Ukrainian administration did not rule out Poroshenko's participation in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit but said it was too early to speak of a bilateral meeting with his Russian counterpart.
A one-month truce in Ukraine is teetering on the verge of collapse as violence in the rebel-held east shows few signs of abating.
Host Italy has said Putin has confirmed his attendance at an ASEM summit in Milan next week, in what will be his first encounter with Western leaders since the Ukraine crisis dramatically deepened this summer.
Italy is hosting the October 16-17 summit. Also expected at ASEM are Merkel, who normally takes a lead in Western contact with Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, among others.
Sources: AFP - globaltimes.cn
9/10/14
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Ukraine : Porochenko annonce qu'il rencontrera Poutine à Milan la semaine prochaine...
ReplyDeleteLe président ukrainien Piotr Porochenko a annoncé samedi qu'il prévoyait de rencontrer son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine pour discuter du conflit armé dans l'est de l'Ukraine lors d'un sommet prévu à Milan la semaine prochaine, indique l'AFP.
"A Milan, je vais rencontrer le président de la Fédération de Russie Vladimir Vladimirovitch Poutine", a déclaré M. Porochenko lors d'un déplacement à Kharkov (Est de l'Ukraine). Le Kremlin avait déjà évoqué la possibilité de cette rencontre lors du sommet ASEM (Dialogue Asie-Europe) qui réunira des dirigeants de l'Union européenne et plusieurs pays asiatiques les 16 et 17 octobre.
La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, les Premiers ministres italien Matteo Renzi et britannique David Cameron et des dirigeants de l'Union européenne participeront aussi à cet entretien, a ajouté le président ukrainien.
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11/10/14