KIEV, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers from the Normandy format countries, namely Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, discussed the prospects for a new prisoner exchange in Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas, a senior Ukrainian official said Tuesday.

Iryna Gerashchenko, Ukrainian Presidential Envoy for the Peaceful Settlement of the Situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions, wrote on Facebook that the ministers exchanged their views on the ways to search people, who went missing during the conflict in Donbas.

Particularly, the ministers discussed a possibility of granting a right to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to access prisons, Gerashchenko said after her phone talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.

Foreign ministers from the Normandy format countries met in Berlin on Monday to discuss the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

The Normandy format, also known as the Normandy contact group, is a four-party diplomatic group set up to resolve the conflict in Donbas that erupted in April 2014.