(MENAFN- QNA) U.S. President Barack Obama and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have discussed ways to effectively monitor and control the uneasy border between Russia and eastern Ukraine.
Obama and Poroshenko have spoke by phone. The White House says they discussed how all sides must live up to a ceasefire deal signed last month in Minsk.
The deal has helped reduce hostilities but failed to completely halt fighting.
The White House says Obama and Poroshenko also conferred on energy security, political reform and Ukraine's effort to bolster its economy.
Obama praised the Ukrainian parliament's passage of legislation to fight corruption.
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