UKRAINE-CRISIS/FRANCE MEETING Foreign ministers meet in France to discuss Ukraine crisis

Record ID: 151950

  • Title: UKRAINE-CRISIS/FRANCE MEETING Foreign ministers meet in France to discuss Ukraine crisis
  • Date: 23rd June 2015
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 23, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FRENCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY FRENCH COCARDE SYMBOL GUARDS LINING ENTRANCE TO MINISTRY / CAR PULLING UP FRENCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS GREETING RUSSIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV UKRAINIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER PAVLO KLIMKIN WALKING UP STAIRS AND ENTERING MINI
  • Embargoed: 8th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7ZYL6XW4Z4R9HDEU0HTUNFT1A
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Foreign Ministers from France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia met in Paris on Tuesday (June 23) to discuss the Ukraine crisis.
    The meeting came on the day the Ukrainian military accused Russian-backed rebels of conducting long-range artillery attacks on villages in the east and said one of its serviceman was killed and 12 wounded in clashes in the previous 24 hours.
    Both sides accuse the other of regularly violating the ceasefire deal signed in Minsk, Belarus, and a surge in violence in the past few weeks has caused international monitors to warn of a threat of a wider escalation.
    German Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for the Minsk agreement which includes a cease-fire to be respected.
    "No one, neither France nor Germany can handle the situation instead of the parties involved in the conflict. The parties involved in the conflict have to put in practice the Minsk agreement by themselves" he said.
    Steinmeier added he hoped the meeting would allow progress in resolving the crisis.
    "I hope that tonight we will go a step forward, but we depend on the will of both Ukraine and Russia to work together with us," he said.
    The United States on Tuesday said it will pre-position tanks, artillery and other military equipment in eastern and central Europe, moving to reassure NATO allies unnerved by Russian involvement in Ukraine.
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