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Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko Stress Importance of Observing Minsk Agreement

15 February 2015 01:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA/ After a phone conversation the leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany said that all parties should fulfill the obligations they accepted during peace talks in Minsk, first of all, the ceasefire agreement, the statement on the website of the Ukrainian president said Saturday, APA reports quoting spuniknews.

Petro Poroshenko, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel held phone talks ahead of a ceasefire in southeastern Ukraine, which is due to come into force at midnight local time on February 15

The truce between Kiev forces andseparatists in Donbas is one of the agreements reached by the leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany and Russia on February 12 after 16-hour talks aimed at deescalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.