KYIV, 16 June 2016 – Expressing solidarity with Ukraine in meetings today with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Foreign Miniter Pavlo Klimkin, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) urged the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements to end the conflict in the Donbas region and reiterated the Parliamentary Assembly’s readiness to do its part to de-escalate and resolve the crisis.
Meeting with Poroshenko, Kanerva noted his concern that six months after the deadlines for the Minsk II agreement had passed, the international community is still calling for a real ceasefire and the withdrawal of foreign fighters and weapons. Other …read more
Source: OSCE