Foreign Policy Workers of German and French Leaders Visit Ukraine Next Week – Ermak
Foreign policy officials of the German Chancellor and President of France Jens Plenter and Emmanuel Bonn will visit Ukraine next week for talks, posted Head of the Office of Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak.
Their visit comes at a time when the West is expressing concern over tens of thousands of Russian troops concentrated near Ukraine’s border. Also against the background of the demand of Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide guarantees that NATO will not allow Kyiv to join the Alliance.
“Next week, my colleagues from France and Germany, politicians of the leaders of the Normandy format, will come to Kyiv,” Ermak wrote on Facebook.
During the week, Ermak held telephone talks with Pletner and Bonn before their visit to Moscow, where they met with Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak.
Russia and 2015, aimed at the war, killed more than 13,000 people in 2014.
The approach to the implementation of the Minsk agreements is key in the issue of diploma resolution of the armed conflict in Donbass. Moscow insists on the unconditional and priority implementation of the agreement on the “special status” of certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which are currently not under the control of the Ukrainian authorities. Kyiv points to the need for solutions primarily to scientific issues, in particular, the exchange of detainees, as well as the restoration of Ukrainian control over the nationally recognized borders of the state.
The armed conflict in Donbass has been going on since 2014 after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of armed support for the militants. The Kremlin rejects these accusations and shows that only Russian “volunteers” can be in Donbass.