President of the European Council Charles Michel has had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and welcomed the agreement reached by Moscow and Kiev on natural gas transit to Europe through Ukraine, the council said in a statement on Thursday.

Axar.az reports citing Russian media.

"During the first contact between Charles Michel, in his capacity as president of the European Council, and Vladimir Putin, president Michel recalled the EU's position on the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements; noted the Paris Summit held in December 2019 in the Normandy format and welcomed the gas transit agreement concluded between Ukraine and Russia," the statement reads.