BERLIN (AA): German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Monday that progress should be achieved in Ukrainian peace talks before Russia could return to G8 group of world’s leading powers.
“We wish to see progress made on the Minsk agreement,” Merkel said at a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of their meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit held in the French seaside town of Biarritz.
Russia was suspended from the G8 in 2014 due to its annexation of Crimea as well as its political and military support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Conflicting parties signed the Minsk cease-fire …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
