The German foreign Ministry pointed to the importance of Russia for peace in the European Union
Europe needs Russia for the solution of international issues, said on the first day of the week in Berlin, foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "European world order has the ability to be, in the end, only With the involvement of Russia", - has declared the Minister for foreign Affairs at the Symposium, which involved the head of the German diplomatic missions around the world, reports the news Agency.
Steinmeier also expressed dissatisfaction with the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine, noting that the parties to the negotiations are still far from a real solution to the conflict. German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on August 16, warned about the possibility of a new escalation of tension in Eastern Ukraine. The head of the delegation of the DND in the Contact group on the peaceful settlement in the Donbass Denis Putilin said that the parties to the conflict in the Donbas are in a step from beginning hostilities. He said that the guarantors of the Minsk agreements ? the leaders of France and Germany ? obliged to respond to violations of the Minsk agreements by Kiev authorities. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. The military actively used heavy machinery and military aircraft and helicopters. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce, under agreements concluded in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, clashes and shelling continued.
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