Angelina Timofeeva. The Minsk agreement is the Foundation of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, said on the first day of the week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"The Minsk agreement remain the Foundation of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine," - said Merkel at a press conference in Berlin on the results of talks with the presidents of France and Ukraine Francois Hollande and Petro Poroshenko.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of the special status " of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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