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‘Merkel, Hollande in favor of negotiated settlement, want to move back from the brink’
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talks on the Ukrainian crisis between the leaders of France, Germany
and Russia have concluded in Moscow. All the countries that were
involved described the negotiations, which lasted more than five hours,
as constructive. RT talks to Martin Sieff, columnist for the
Post-Examiner online newspaper.
Ukraine War: Fears of Western Split As Germany Leans On Russia
by Dahboo777
Fears
of a split in Western strategy towards Ukraine grew on Friday night
after Germany directly rebuffed America over its threats to send weapons
to Kiev.
As Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, arrived in Moscow
for 11th hour peace talks with Vladimir Putin, her ministers said that
allowing US arms to be used against separatist rebels would “pour oil
onto the flames”.
The warning from Ursula von der Leyen, the German
defence minister, followed Washington’s announcement on Thursday that it
might give Ukrainian government forces sophisticated defensive weapons
to halt the rebels’ recent rapid advance.
Elements within the
Pentagon now believe that the only way to force the rebels to the
negotiating table is to even the military balance.
But Mrs von der
Leyen claimed that would simply give Mr Putin an excuse to arm the
rebels more more heavily, or even send in the Russian army openly. “In
Ukraine there are already far too many weapons,” she said. “The resupply
(of weapons) to the separatists is potentially unlimited.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/02/merkel-hollande-in-favor-of-negotiated.html
