In a video conference, Obama and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the EU said they would support and strengthen the role of Europe’s OSCE security organization to monitor the so-called Minsk agreements that led to last month’s cease-fire between Ukraine’s army and Russian-backed separatists.
In the wake of the fighting and Moscow’s annexation last year of the Crimean Peninsula, the EU has imposed visa bans on 151 individuals, including some senior Russian officials and lawmakers. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
