Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel urged both sides in the ongoing fighting in Eastern Ukraine Saturday to “live up to their responsibilities” and “implement as quickly as possible” agreements to reduce conflict in the region.
The joint statement from the German chancellor and French president came in light of “the recent sharp increase in the number of ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine.”
“There is no alternative to an exclusively peaceful solution to the conflict,” the two leaders said in the statement, urging “the need for full implementation of the Minsk agreements.”
Representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in …read more
Source: European Voice
