France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine renew ceasefire calls

The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany agreed on Tuesday to seek a reinforcement of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine and renewed calls for an oft-breached ceasefire agreement to be respected.

The conclusions of the some three-hour meeting in Paris were read out by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

Earlier, his Ukrainian counterpart told reporters that "unfortunately" the four had not been able to reach an agreement on condemning events on the ground in Debaltseve, a strategic town taken by pro-Russian rebels.

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