BERLIN — Talks between Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France produced several agreements aimed at improving security in eastern Ukraine but no deal on holding local elections in the separatist region controlled by Russia-backed rebels, a top German diplomat said on May 11.
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(L-R) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier pose for a family picture prior to talks at the Villa Borsig guest house of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin on May 11.