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Steinmeier and Ayrault demand reforms
Germany and France place, despite the government crisis in Kiev will continue on a Pro-European course in Ukraine. This must be the “spirit of the Maidan” to remain faithful.
The crisis in Kiev is getting worse – and the appeal is accordingly urged: The Ukrainian government had at the Modernisierungskurs hold, no matter how “difficult and sometimes painful” this is the letter to foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault in a joint op-ed piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, of this Monday is published.
More than once in the history of Ukraine is tragically lost. The foreign Ministers wish, “that it is time to happy ends.”
If she does, doubt, currently, many: The Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseni Jazenjuk had
last week by President Petro Poroshenko supported a no-confidence vote survived, his majority in Parliament but lost. Now controls the by the war against Pro-Russian separatists already weakened country to new elections.
Main sticking points in Kiev, the fight against corruption and the economic reforms, the Western partners of the country and the International monetary Fund to demand.
At the weekend, it came to riots on the Maidan-memorial day
Corruption and slow reform process
The IMF was the Ukraine to 2015 a package with a volume of 17.5 billion dollars over four years committed, of the 6.7 billion flowed. A in October due Rate of 1.7 billion dollars, holds the funds, but due to the slow pace of reforms.
The Ukrainian economy, criticizing the two Ministers of foreign Affairs in your comment, “has a downturn of unprecedented proportions in my life.” Individual would have “huge economic Power accumulated, and will use this shamelessly for political influence.” Further still: The social Cohesion will by serious allegations of widespread corruption have been threatened.
Steinmeier and Ayrault want on Monday and Tuesday, even a picture of the situation – shortly before their departure early in the afternoon called at a joint meet-the-press at the airport Tegel in Berlin, warned that the reform process must be observed. “The way back on the reform path, must be in Kiev to be found”, said Steinmeier, immediately before the departure with his counterpart.
The SPD politician criticized, among other things, a “significant delay” in the Work on a new Constitution and a new electoral law. At the same time, he urged the Ukraine to the peace agreement of Minsk to the East of the country to fully implement.
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Focus Europe: Ukraine: everyday life in ruins (17.02.2016)
Foreign Minister: “the spirit of The Maidan to remain faithful to
The journey, so Ayrault, aim, solutions for one of the “worst crises”, the European Union and in its neighbourhood has to deal with.
In Kiev you will be, including President Poroshenko, Prime Minister Jazenjuk and Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko meeting.
Germany and France will work together with Ukraine and Russia in the so-called Normandy Format in the implementation of the Minsk agreement. The next Meeting of the foreign Ministers of the four States, according to Ayraults information on 3. March held in Paris.
If the crisis in Kiev until then is solved, it remains to be seen. The appeal of the Minister of foreign Affairs is accordingly urged: The problems in the country to tackle, “says the spirit of the Maidan to remain true, two years ago, at such a impressive way, has unfolded.”