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Does the Normandy Group on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Have a Future? (Part Two) Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 21 Meeting of Trilateral Minsk Contact Group, November 25, 2020 (Source: 112.international) Kyiv is pinning its hopes on the new administration of United States President Joseph Biden to help rebalance and restart both the Normandy forum and the Minsk Contact Group (see Part One in EDM, February 4). The Minsk Contact Group operates at a level roughly equivalent to the ambassadorial, below the head of state/head of government or ministerial levels of the Normandy format. In the established modus operandi, from 2014 onward, the Normandy forum (Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France) provided guidelines for actions in the Minsk Group and held the latter accountable for implementation. Since 2020, however, Russia has “frozen” the Normandy forum and shifted the active negotiations into the Minsk Contact Group, where the West is unrepresented while Moscow

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