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European foreign ministers reach agreement to a ceasefire in Ukraine
Posted On 02 Jul 2014
Ministers of Foreign Affairs from France Laurent Fabius , Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Russia, Sergei Lavrov. (AFP)
The governments of France, Russia, Germany and Ukraine agreed on this Wednesday a ceasefire in Ukraine, as reported by the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“All participants in the conversations we have realized the responsibility to prevent something bigger in Ukraine,” Steinmeier said in a press conference in Berlin.
The meeting was attended by the head of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; its similar French, Laurent Fabius; Ukrainian Pavlo Klimkin, whose government maintains a strong military operation in the southeast of the country.
“I want to especially stress that the offer for Ukrainian border guards and observers from the OSCE is valid so long as the ceasefire is observed,” said Lavrov.
