To cease fire this week. Nobody could make out what it means in practice (is it pulling troops out or turning Donbass into scorched earth?). "We have to stop fire this week. For me, every day of people dying, every day of Ukraine paying such a high price is an unacceptable one," President Poroshenko said in an apparent reference to the fighting around Slavyansk as he opened the first meeting of a three-party contact group on the implementation of the peace plan to establish peace and calm in eastern Ukraine. The establishment of the group with such a long and complicated name appears to be the major result of Poroshenko’s first foreign trip after the presidential election. The Ukrainian President discussed a peace plan with French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the margins of the D-Day commemorations in Normandy.
As reported, the meeting of Petro Poroshenko with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted just 15 minutes as did the conversation between the Russian President and US President Barack Obama. The Russian and German leaders spoke for an hour before the D-Day commemoration ceremony started. It’s not known what they talked about. The description of the event was unusually short. The Chancellor’s press-service said Russia is to realize it has responsibility for what is happening in Ukraine. The gas deal was not on the agenda. The scarcity of information made journalists watch the gests, eyes and expressions of leaders’ faces. Angela Merkel looked stern as a school teacher. American diplomats praised the Chancellor for being cool with Putin unlike the warm reception she had given to Poroshenko in Berlin just a day before meeting the Russian President. And that was all.
Visiting the German capital Poroshenko was told that Berlin is ready to render the aid Ukraine needs so much. The promise caressed the ear; Ukraine still cherishes hope that German businessmen will lend a helping hand. Perhaps that’s what Kiev-appointed Donetsk regional governor Sergey Taratuta has visited Germany for. According to Federal Foreign MinisterDr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, they discussed the prospects for crisis management. The German foreign chief warned Kiev against excessive use of force. [1] It makes one hope that at last Steinmeier started to think in practical terms about how to get the situation out of deadlock as just recently he had been inclined to point finger at Moscow making it guilty for everything that went wrong in Ukraine.[2]
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As reported, the meeting of Petro Poroshenko with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted just 15 minutes as did the conversation between the Russian President and US President Barack Obama. The Russian and German leaders spoke for an hour before the D-Day commemoration ceremony started. It’s not known what they talked about. The description of the event was unusually short. The Chancellor’s press-service said Russia is to realize it has responsibility for what is happening in Ukraine. The gas deal was not on the agenda. The scarcity of information made journalists watch the gests, eyes and expressions of leaders’ faces. Angela Merkel looked stern as a school teacher. American diplomats praised the Chancellor for being cool with Putin unlike the warm reception she had given to Poroshenko in Berlin just a day before meeting the Russian President. And that was all.
Visiting the German capital Poroshenko was told that Berlin is ready to render the aid Ukraine needs so much. The promise caressed the ear; Ukraine still cherishes hope that German businessmen will lend a helping hand. Perhaps that’s what Kiev-appointed Donetsk regional governor Sergey Taratuta has visited Germany for. According to Federal Foreign MinisterDr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, they discussed the prospects for crisis management. The German foreign chief warned Kiev against excessive use of force. [1] It makes one hope that at last Steinmeier started to think in practical terms about how to get the situation out of deadlock as just recently he had been inclined to point finger at Moscow making it guilty for everything that went wrong in Ukraine.[2]
Complete story at - Poroshenko: Off To a Bad Start - Dire Fallout Looming Out to Tower around Ukraine > Strategic Culture Foundation
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