Donetsk, Luhansk Leaders Sign Minsk Deal on Ukraine - Hollande

  12 February 2015    Read: 1215
Donetsk, Luhansk Leaders Sign Minsk Deal on Ukraine - Hollande
The Minsk deal, which covers the issues of the decentralization of Ukraine, border control and heavy weaponry withdrawal, was signed by the Contact Group representatives, French President Hollande told journalists after the nearly 15-hour reconciliation talks in the Belarusian capital.
The leaders of the self-proclaimed eastern Ukrainian Donetsk and Luhansk People’s republics have signed an agreement on settling the political crisis in the country, French President Francois Hollande said Thursday.

“This text that was signed by the Contact Group…covers all issues: decentralization, border control [with Russia], and pulling back heavy weapons,” Hollande told journalists after the nearly 15-hour reconciliation talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

Participants of the Normandy format meeting — Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel – have been holding talks for more than 13 hours in the Belarusian capital of Minsk to hammer out a deal on the Ukrainian crisis.

Members of the Contact Group, comprising envoys from Kiev, Moscow, the Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics, as well as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have also been negotiating in Minsk since Tuesday.

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