Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande to hold phone talks on Donbas situation next week

17:54, 30.03.2017 1 min read

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he had agreed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about holding trilateral telephone talks involving the leaders of Ukraine, Germany and France next week.

"I've had very efficient talks with the German chancellor, we've agreed to hold telephone conversations in a trilateral format early next week with the participation of Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. The talks will be dedicated to intensifying the Minsk format process," Poroshenko told reporters in St. Julian's , Malta, after the EPP summit.