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Talks in Minsk on resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine have ended with the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany all saying no new breakthroughs were made.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the Nov. 29 meeting in the Belarusian capital concluded with negotiators far from reaching a political agreement that includes local elections – one of the key points of the February 2015 Minsk Agreement.

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