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1st LD: Ukraine, Russia agree to hold elections in eastern Ukraine this year: French FM

Xinhua, March 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on Thursday agreed that elections would be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of June, French top diplomat Jean-Marc Ayrault said.

"We underlined the importance of adopting an electoral law to hold local elections by the end of the first semester of 2016," Ayrault said at the close of a meeting in Paris with his three counterparts.

The foreign ministers also called for "the release and exchange of all prisoners and people held in illegal detention between now and April 30," he said. Endi