PARIS – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed Thursday that elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
“We underlined the importance of adopting an electoral law to hold local elections by the end of the first semester of 2016,” Ayrault said at the close of a meeting in Paris with his three counterparts.
The four chief diplomats also called for “the release and exchange of all prisoners and people held in illegal detention between now and April 30”, he said.
 

Source: AFP, 4 March 2016