Angela Merkel and Donald trump
The President of the United States Donald trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, April 5, held telephone talks. Leaders, according to Reuters, discussed the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the situation in Afghanistan.
“The leaders agreed to closely cooperate and coordinate on these and other issues,” — said the press service of the White house.
Trump and Merkel discussed the Ukrainian crisis during the visit of Chancellor in Washington, which took place on March 17. The us leader said that the United States together with Germany and France committed to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. Merkel, in turn, noted that the implementation of the Minsk agreements provide an opportunity to improve relations with Russia.
The Minsk agreements were adopted at the summit in the Belarusian capital in February 2015 leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia in the format “Norman Quartet.” They also require that the withdrawal of weapons, the ceasefire and the implementation in Ukraine of the constitutional reform.
Currently in Afghanistan there are about 8.5 thousand American troops and about five thousand troops of the allied States, despite the fact that, formally, the coalition military operation in the country ended in 2014. Since 2001, the US has lost in Afghanistan by 2.4 thousand people killed.