Merkel, Poroshenko say arms deliveries to Ukraine separatists must stop

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BERLIN, Shawwal 20, 1435, Aug 16, 2014, SPA -- Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed in a phone call on Saturday that deliveries of weapons to separatists in Ukraine must stop and a ceasefire must be agreed, Reuters cited a spokesman for the German government as saying. "The subject of the discussion was, above all, the reports confirmed by the separatists about the delivery of tanks from Russia and the reinforcement by fighters trained on Russian soil," Steffen Seibert said, adding that Merkel expected Moscow to take a position on these reports and the separatists' comments. "They agreed that these deliveries of weapons must finally stop and that a ceasefire must be agreed," he added. -- SPA 23:33 LOCAL TIME 20:33 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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