Normandy Four Leaders Discuss Minsk Accords in Phone Call - Kremlin

© AFP 2023 / MAXIM MALINOVSKYFrance's President Francois Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L-R) walk for a family photo at the presidential residence in Minsk on February 11, 2015
France's President Francois Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L-R) walk for a family photo at the presidential residence in Minsk on February 11, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel – leaders of the so-called Normandy quartet – discussed on Thursday in a phone call the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine reconciliation, the Kremlin said in a statement.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation, comprising representatives of Kiev, the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), reached an agreement on the procedure and schedule for the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the contact line in eastern Ukraine.

"The discussion of the implementation of the February 12 Minsk Agreements has been continued, following up on the Contact Group and its working subgroups meeting held on July 21," the statement read.

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The quartet has been "satisfied" with the approval of the document guaranteeing heavy weaponry withdrawal from the contact line in contested areas of eastern Ukraine, the statement said.

The Normandy quartet has held several rounds of talks on Ukrainian reconciliation, most notably in February when they signed the Minsk deal in Minsk, Belarus. The agreement included a set of 13 steps to end bloodshed, among them a ceasefire, heavy artillery withdrawal from the line of contact and a removal of an economic blockade imposed on Donbas in November 2014.

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