Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Eyraud.
It is known that these bilateral negotiations are preceded by a meeting of the Normandy Quartet foreign ministers. It is reported that the ministers shook hands and were optimistic.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry official representative Maria Zakharova didn't rule out that the heads of the Russian and French foreign ministries might discuss the Syrian settlement in addition to the Ukrainian issue, RIA Novosti reports.
