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Ukraine eyes ceasefire extension after diplomatic push |
2014-07-01 |
[Pak Daily Times] Ukraine looked primed to extend a shaky truce in the conflict-hit east of the country after frantic talks involving the leaders of Russia, La Belle France and Germany as a ceasefire deadline neared. Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ![]() agreed to work on "the adoption of an agreement on a bilateral ceasefire between Ukrainian authorities and separatists" following four-way phone talks with Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , the French presidency said. The deadline for the current truce runs out at 1900 GMT on Monday but violence has rumbled on regardless with no end in sight to months of fighting that has claimed some 450 lives. |
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