MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. The meeting between Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland was useful, and this could become a full-fledged format of Russian-US contacts, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft said Thursday.

"We thought that it was a useful meeting and… our call's to try to support the process, the Normandy process, and we are very carefully coordinating our work with Germany and France," Tefft said in an interview with three Russian news agencies.

"I think nobody knows at this point whether there will be extra meetings, there may be, as I said before I think that the key point is to implement this agreement, and we’ll do what it takes to support early and full implementation of the Minsk Agreements," he said.

On January 15, Surkov and Nuland held substantial consultations in Kaliningrad in search for compromises on Ukraine.

"It was a kind of a brainstorm to seek compromises for implementation of the Minsk Agreements," Surkov said.

He said that "regarding some pressing issues, like the constitutional reform (in Ukraine), security and elections, ideas were put forward that may be discussed in the Contact Group in the Normandy format (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine)."

The Surkov-Nuland meeting was organized in development of talks that took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry as part of the latter’s visit to Moscow December 15 last year.