Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine urge setting up contact group to agree terms for truce
MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - The Russia, German, French and Ukrainian foreign ministers, at a meeting on Wednesday, called for setting up a contact group as soon as possible to agree terms for a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We were able today to agree a declaration, thereby fulfilling a task from our leaders, and we can report that this task has been carried out. The main point of that document is the need to urgently agree terms for a sustained, lasting truce," Lavrov told reporters after the meeting, held in Berlin.
"We propose doing so via the earliest possible convocation of a contact group, which, we hope, will meet within days and agree the terms for a truce that will satisfy all the sides," he said.
