Europe on Monday postponed sanctions against Moscow ahead of a Ukraine peace summit as US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed options to end 10 months of bloodshed.
Merkel was in Washington as cracks between Europe and the United States seemed to emerge over the White House’s mulling of sending arms to Ukraine, an idea flatly rejected by the German leader.
Officials from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, meanwhile, were hammering out the details for a four-way summit Wednesday on a European-brokered peace plan billed as a last chance to defuse the escalating conflict.
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Source: Pakistan Today