The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly underway in New York.
“The Chancellor noted that the situation in Ukraine had an important significance for the global security,” the news release said Sunday.
Merkel stressed, as quoted in the news release, that “one should clearly distinguish between the security situation in Ukraine and Syria.”
The Normandy Quartet format, comprising France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, was created in 2014 to secure a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In February, the leaders of the Quartet-nations worked out a ceasefire deal in Minsk, which stipulates that constitutional reforms aimed at decentralizing power in Ukraine and local elections in Donbass to be implemented before the end of 2015, among other provisions.
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