Telephone talks in ‘Normandy format’ held over Ukraine

The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held talks via telephone on 23 July 2015 over the conflict in east Ukraine. The phone conversation in the so-called 'Normandy' format came a week after similar four-way talks. All sides called for the full implementation of the ceasefire deal, according to a source of the French presidency.

Earlier in the week, Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko had agreed on a 30-kilometer demilitarised zone in the country's eastern region.

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