Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier began meeting on the last working day of the week in Kiev with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk, has notified the foreign Ministry of Germany in Twitter, adding that the negotiations, economic and financial stabilization of Ukraine.

first Steinmeier held in the Ukrainian capital of the meeting with the special representative of the OSCE Heidi Tagliavini.

Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany came on the last working day of the week in Kiev to provide the possibility of talks with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Yatseniuk. Among other topics, the implementation of the Minsk agreements indicated in the international Ministry of Germany.

Ukraine is currently hosted in severe political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. The government predicts a decrease of the country's GDP by 5% in 2014, in November the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk did not exclude the falling rate of 7%. A similar level of decline is predicted and the national Bank of Ukraine. The European Bank for restoration and development assumes that GDP will decline by 7%, Fitch - 5%. The authorities want to improve the situation of foreign borrowing. For 2014, Ukraine received cash assistance from international financial institutions and partner countries in the amount of 8 $ 2 billion

Kyiv Authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were 4, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured. On the morning of December 9, in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE truce. It is planned that the ceasefire will be preceded by new talks of the contact group in Minsk, which is scheduled for Sunday.

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