Of the German foreign Ministry: EU is not obliged to provoke violence in Ukraine
The European Union is obliged to use all available means in order not to trigger a new spiral of violence in the East of Ukraine, where the situation for the last week and a half worsened, said German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
" We ought carefully to observe that the opportunities that We have, would be used to at least not to trigger a new spiral of violence, " said the German Minister to reporters before a meeting of foreign Ministers of the EU. Live broadcast from Brussels maintains the website of the European Commission.
" Without a doubt the situation in the last 1, 5 weeks again deteriorated. We must observe that it again came under observation, " said Steinmeier, adding that the participants of the Ministerial meeting on the first day of the week in addition to initiatives to maintain economic improvement and support reforms in Ukraine will be talking about it.
the head of the foreign Ministers of the EU on the first day of the week gather in Brussels for the first meeting under the leadership of the new large messenger of the EU for foreign Affairs and security policy Federici Mogherini.
According to Steinmeier, fresh potential penalties regarding Russia will not be considered in place of this policy will be talking about the situation in Ukraine in General.
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN on October 31, victims of the conflict began more than 4 thousand civilians, more than 9 thousand were injured. With the mediation of the OSCE and Russia agreed a truce with the 5 of September, however, the parties blame each other in its violation. Moscow has stated many times that completely uninvolved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. Russia also many times called all external actors to influence Kiev for the execution of the Minsk agreements for the settlement of the situation in the East of the country.