MINSK (Reuters) - The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany arrived in the Belarussian capital of Minsk on Wednesday and began talks to try to defuse the 10-month separatist crisis in Ukraine.
Belarussian leader Aleksander Lukashenko greeted Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russia's Vladimir Putin separately at Minsk's ornate Independence Palace. He handed a bouquet of flowers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel whom he welcomed together with French President Francois Hollande.
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