The President of Kazakhstan during his December visits to Kyiv and Moscow had discussions on possible ways of overcoming the Ukrainian crisis.
After those meetings Nursultan Nazarbayev also discussed this issue in his telephone conversations with President of Ukraine P.Poroshenko, President of France F.Hollande and Chancellor of Germany A.Merkel.
As a result of the talks with President of Ukraine P.Poroshenko and President of Russia V.Putin the possibility of holding a meeting of the leaders of the two states in Astana involving German Chancellor A.Merkel and President of France F.Hollande, was agreed.
On its part, Kazakhstan is ready to carry on negotiations on 15-16 January 2015 or at any other convenient time for the parties.