WASHINGTON, September 9 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon have discussed over the telephone the importance of effective monitoring of the ceasefire in Ukraine, the White House said in a statement.
“They discussed the importance of an effective monitoring mechanism for the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine,” the statement, released late on Monday night, said.
According to the statement, the two leaders also “agreed on the need for a broad coalition to counter the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to continue humanitarian assistance to civilians under threat in Iraq.”
Other issues, discussed by Obama and Ban, included the need for greater international effort to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the upcoming Secretary-General’s Climate Summit and the United Nations Security Council session on terrorism, that the US President will chair.
