Luxembourg foreign Minister: EU is more United on Ukraine than on the issue of migrants
The Minister for foreign Affairs of Luxembourg presiding in the Council (of Ministers) of the European Union, Jean Asselborn said the EU over are United on the issue of politics in Ukraine, than on the issue of migrants.
The European Parliament on Thursday blessed the head of the European Commission on the introduction of quotas for the admission of immigrants, the flow of which in the European Union in recent months has become the largest since the Second world war. The head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker formally submitted the initiative to the countries of the European Union on the basis of mandatory quotas further to take in the next two years in total, 160 thousand immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.
"Frankly, we can say that on the issue of Ukraine, We have over solidarity and rallied more than than on the issue of migrants is accurate," he said, speaking at the international Forum of the organization of the "Yalta European strategy" (YES).
"We will see what are the next steps on the issue of solving the issue of migration in the first day of the week. In this case, the European solidarity as long as is not so manifest, as it was about the sanctions (against Russia - ed.)", - said the Minister.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military action against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.