the first interesting speaker is mr stoltenberg. yesterday me did welcome the deliberations, the agreement that was reached here in munich on thursday night, but say what the russian done up to this point has not been helpful and it is time to get serious. the russians are here too. mr lavrov has arrived in the last few minutes. he will be speaking as will his colleague the prime minister and then after those two have spoken we will be hearing a statement from the u.s. secretary of state, john kerry, and what they all have to say will definitely indicate to us how serious they are about finding a resolution and maybe changing the opinions of the people we've been hearing zana talk about there, having to implement what has been agreed upon here >>> syria aside, there's another important conflict which is becoming almost a frozen conflict, isn't it, and that's ukraine, a year after a ceasefire arrangement was agreed by so many of the parties involved. >> reporter: yes. that's right. there's the normandy format of these meetings which

that certainly is something that mr stoltenberg, the secretary general of nato, said that russia needed to be respectful of countries that shares border with it. the other thing is that there has been a meeting of the normandy format that was held earlier this morning. russian news agencies reports that there was not tangible progress made there, but all sides have agreed to revisit the format next month in march where we expect the four foreign ministers again to meet and all of them say they are committed to the minsk agreement, which the ceasefire has been frozen for some time. certainly that's nothing that has happened that way here as well. they will be speaking here at the conference later on this morning >>> thank you very much. going back to matters syrian, the u.n. panel who are investigating who may have been responsible for the chemical attacks in the country, say they're looking into five possible cases. the team is looking at cases where chlorine or mustard gas may have been used and it will start work next month and will push for access to collect evidence and carry out in