PARIS — A summit reviving a European push to bring peace to eastern Ukraine ended Friday with a call for the delay of contentious rebel plans to hold local elections this month and for both sides to begin a promised withdrawal of smaller-caliber weapons.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C, R) Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko (at her right) Russian president Vladimir Poutine (6thL) and French President Francois Hollande (7thL) pose prior to a peace summit on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 2, 2015. AFP PHOTO/POOL/ETIENNE LAURENT
