"Vladimir Putin called for an immediate end to the
shelling of populated localities in Donbass by Ukrainian Armed Forces,"
the Kremlin press service said.
MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a telephone conversation with Germany’s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the Kremlin press service said.
They discussed political settlement of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine," they report said. "The interlocutors stressed the importance of observing the ceasefire, raising the efficiency of operations of the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in the region, expanding its current scope of powers, and building up the Joint Control and Coordination Center."
"Vladimir Putin called for an immediate end to the
shelling of populated localities in Donbass by Ukrainian Armed Forces,"
the press service said. "The Russian side stressed the need for a direct
dialogue between Kiev, on the one hand, and Donetsk and Lugansk, on the other,
for the purpose of full-scale and all-embracing implementation of the February
12, 2015, Minsk accords."
Putin indicated that the package of proposals on local
elections, the special status, amnesty, and decentralization had been
coordinated with the leaderships of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk
People’s Republics and it would make sense for the Contact Group in charge of
attaining peace settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine to scrutinize
them, the Kremlin said.
The sides also had an exchange of opinion on possible
steps towards resolution of acute social, economic and humanitarian problems in
eastern Ukraine. In addition to it, the interlocutors took up some elements of
the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Source: ITAR-TASS 24-05-2016
