Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany talks set timetable to bring about prisoner swaps, elections in
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[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/ukraine-election-timetable-established-in-paris-meetings[/url]
[quote=Bloomberg]The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed on a timetable for elections in eastern Ukraine and for the release of prisoners, though they disagreed about what progress had been made on a permanent cease-fire.
“We have advanced on fixing concrete objectives and on establishing a working calendar,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said after hosting talks Thursday evening in Paris. “We are confident because there is a willingness to move forward.”
Ayrault said officials from the four countries that sealed the February 2015 peace accord to end fighting in eastern Ukraine won pledges from both sides to [B]release all prisoners by April 30, to hold local elections in the Donbas region by June 30, and to publicly pledge to refrain from using weapons during training exercises along the disputed front.[/B][/quote]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/kiev-moscow-agree-hold-vote-east-ukraine-end-231007043.html[/url]
[quote=Yahoo News]Paris (AFP) - Crucial elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed, but questions remain over Kiev and Moscow's ability to seal the deal.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that the Paris meeting was a "step forward" for the restive region, but his German and Ukrainian counterparts painted a gloomier picture of negotiations.
"We underlined the importance of adopting an electoral law to hold local elections by the end of the first half of 2016," Ayrault said at the close of the meeting.
Ukraine's Pavlo Klimkin, however, repeated Kiev's insistence that there can be no polls in the country's east until a total cessation of hostilities with separatist rebels.
"We must be able to ensure these elections are organised safely, we need our territory to be secure," he said.[/quote]
And of course it's gonna be ruined, then Ukraine and seps gonna blame it on each other. Calling it.
[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;49876804]And of course it's gonna be ruined, then Ukraine and seps gonna blame it on each other. Calling it.[/QUOTE]
No, obviously it's gonna be Russia.
Specifically it's gonna be Putin.
[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;49877252]Specifically it's gonna be Putin.[/QUOTE]
Actually in this case it was the separatists because they said they weren't going to hold local elections with Ukraine back in October, despite Ukraine making all the appropriate constitutional and legal changes necessary to adhere to the Minsk Agreement.
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