PARIS — French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that their efforts to broker a truce in Ukraine were back on track but would take longer than originally planned and run into 2016.
After six hours of talks at the Elysée palace with Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two western European leaders insisted that an oft-broken ceasefire agreed upon in the so-called Minsk agreement earlier this year had been widely respected of late.
But Hollande, noting that most of the clauses in the agreement had taken “more time than planned” to be implemented, …read more
Source: European Voice
