KIEV, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The "Normandy Four" diplomatic group on Ukraine's crisis may discuss the possible deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops to the country's conflict-hit eastern region of Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday.
While addressing the 14th Yalta European Strategy (YES) International conference in Kiev, Poroshenko said that all leaders of the Normandy countries -- Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France -- have shown "absolutely promising progress" in their readiness to discuss the issue.
The Normandy Four or the Normandy Format is a group aimed at resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine in accordance with peace deals reached in Belarus's capital Minsk, in February 2015.
The possible presence of the UN "blue helmets" in the Donbas could help ensure the implementation of the Minsk peace deal adopted by the Normandy format group in February 2015, Poroshenko said.
On Sept. 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow will ask the UN Security Council to send peacekeepers to patrol the contact line in eastern Ukraine, and Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said on the same day that Kiev was ready to consider the deployment of peacekeeping troops.
On Sept. 12, Poroshenko announced that he will initiate the discussion at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly later this week.
