Warsaw, 11/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - During a meeting attended by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko on Saturday 9 July on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw, French and American presidents François Hollande and Barack Obama, British and Italian prime ministers David Cameron and Matteo Renzi, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on “the importance of injecting fresh momentum into implementation of the Minsk Agreement”, as the British prime minister's website states.
During a press conference, Obama said the leaders had reaffirmed their “strong support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the need to continue political and economic reforms”. The final statement from the NATO summit in Warsaw also spoke of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, calling for implementation of the Minsk agreements.
Merkel and Hollande had spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin on the phone the previous day, who asked them “to more actively influence their Ukrainian partners to promote strict compliance with the Minsk agreements, including at the upcoming talks with Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw”, according to a press release from the Kremlin. Merkel, Hollande and Putin also underlined the need to step up dialogues in different formats for the full and complete implementation of Minsk, the same press release adds. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)