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France to host meeting on Ukraine crisis on Tuesday

Xinhua, February 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

France will host a meeting on Tuesday on Ukrainian crisis in a fresh diplomatic move to enforce the ceasefire deal agreed a week ago despite escalating violence in the country, a government source said on Monday.

A source from Quai d'Orsay press centre told Xinhua that top diplomats of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will try to push trough the peace accord breached with recent fighting which claimed two victims on Monday.

More than a week after Minsk agreement, Ukraine's military refused to start withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in the east as independence-seeking insurgents had not stopped attacking government positions. Endit