U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have called for Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to fully implement Minsk peace agreements.
In a telephone conversation Saturday, Biden and Poroshenko discussed the European Union-mediated agreements, reached in the Belarussian capital in February and in September of last year.
The deals between the Ukrainian government and the rebels called for a cease-fire and verified withdrawal of heavy weapons, free access for international monitors and exchange of all prisoners.
Poroshenko also noted that Ukraine had taken additional steps to delineate the provisions of the law on special status for breakaway regions of eastern …read more
Source: Voice of America
