In Kyiv, on February 22–23, with a working visit, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier portrayed the “Normandy” group’s upcoming March 3 meeting in Paris as a make-or-break event, designed to overcome the diplomatic deadlock over “the Ukraine crisis.” The diplomatic process is stuck in a crisis of its own, Steinmeier suggested: “We are unhappy with the process in recent months, but we do not see alternatives to these [Minsk] agreements. The Paris meeting will be a key meeting, a decisive meeting, where we must take some steps to preserve trust in the process itself” (Ukrainian TV Channel Five, …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation