Merkel says all must be done to implement Minsk peace deal


  • World
  • Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, August 24, 2015. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine was not being respected and everything must be done to fully implement the broader peace deal reached in Minsk in February.

"The ceasefire agreement hasn't been fully implemented and that's meant that there have been more and more victims," Merkel said in a news conference in Berlin with French President Francois Hollande and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.

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