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Hollande to talk with German, Russian and Ukrainian leaders

Xinhua, February 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

French President Francois Hollande will have a four-way telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko later this evening, French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll announced Wednesday.

"We will continue, we know we have problems, we know not everything is settled. But between what was before Minsk accord and what we know now, even though everything is not settled, there was still a progress," said Le Foll.

The telephone call talk comes after UN Security Coucil's resolution, aiming to endorse the Minsk accords for the now-faltering cease-fire in war-torn sections of eastern Ukraine, adopted last week.

Foll said that the Ukraine ceasefire deal "was not dead" and that France would do "everything to keep the agreement alive". Enditem