While Syria is the key talking point at this year’s gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York, efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine continue.<br /><br /> Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held talks on Sunday with German leader Angela Merkel about the peace plan she helped to broker.<br /><br /> And, in the General Assembly Hall, he told the UN Sustainable Development Summit about the social impact of having to devote resources to fighting pro-Russian separatists.<br /><br /> “The external aggression has led to the emergence of the new form of poverty – sudden and unexpected poverty that affects one and a half million of the internally displaced persons. Each day of this war in Donbass costs us about five million US dollars,” he said.<br /><br /> Last week, Ukraine and some of its Western allies condemned a decision by pro-Russian separatists to ban most foreign aid organisations from parts of rebel-held territory, saying that the move violated the Minsk peace agreement.<br /><br /> The banned groups, which
