France says conditions are met for a top-level meeting on Ukraine

France's foreign ministry said on Wednesday significant progress had been made in talks aiming to put an end to the long-running Ukraine crisis, adding the conditions were in place to hold a meeting in Paris soon between leaders of the countries involved.

"France welcomes this progress, enabled by intense negotiations held these last few weeks within the so-called Normandy format between France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia", a ministry spokeswoman said.

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