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Steinmeier and Ayrault are insisting on reforms in Kiev
The Ukraine is in a deep governmental and economic crisis. To the beleaguered country on a Pro-European Reform course, to keep the travel, the foreign Ministers of Germany and France together to Kiev.
The foreign Minister Ayrault (left) and Steinmeier at the Berlin airport Tegel
The two foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault shortly before the departure to Kiev to the Ukrainian parties appealed, with the Reform to continue. Steinmeier said in Berlin, given the domestic political turmoil in the Ukraine it was “high time”, directly with the key players to talk. 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.
His French colleague Mr Ayrault also said in Berlin: “This trip aims at solutions for one of the worst crises the European Union in your neighborhood has to deal with.” In the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” called on the two leaders, the Ukrainian leadership on the fight against corruption to continue.
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Ukraine: daily life in ruins (17.02.2016)
Germany and France to work with Ukraine and Russia in the so-called Normandy Format in the implementation of the Minsk agreement. The next Meeting of the foreign Ministers from all four States, according to Ayraults information on 3. March held in Paris.
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In Kiev want to Steinmeier, and Ayrault, among others, with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseny Jazenjuk and Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko come together. Jazenjuk had last week its majority in Parliament lost after two parties from the coalition, had left. By a war against Pro-Russian separatists emaciated country now controls elections.
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For France’s new foreign Minister, this was the first Berlin visit in her new role. The former Prime Minister of the Socialist party had in the previous week, the long-standing Ressortchef Laurent Fabius was replaced at the head of the French constitutional Council stepped in.
New Protest on the Maidan
Exactly two years after the bloody riots on the Maidan square in Kiev is the Ex-Soviet Republic back into a severe government crisis. On the Maidan stirs new Protest. About 1000 protesters, many of them from the right camp, demanded on Sunday the resignation of the Pro-Western leadership. Dozens Regierungsgegner pitched tents on the independence square (Maidan) on and occupied parts of a hotel.
On Saturday, had President Petro Poroshenko and many Ukrainians on the Maidan flowers laid and candles lit in memory of the victims of the riots in February 2014. As the Pro-Western uprising against the former dictator Viktor Yanukovych reached its climax, there were approximately 100 people have been killed. Many were sniper shot. Critics accuse the authorities, the investigations of this tragedy to procrastinate. Poroshenko said at a Meeting with relatives of the victims, it is not acceptable that the investigations are not vorankämen. A planned reform of the judiciary for the success was essential, he stressed.
IMF brakes
To the current government crisis in the Ukraine comes a deep recession. The already weak currency Hrywnia lost since the beginning of the year a tenth of its value. Due to slow reforms and the insufficient fight against corruption, upholds the International monetary Fund (IMF) for aid back. Without the IMF funds to the Ukraine as a barely survivable. Of 2015, said the monetary Fund the country a financial package of 17.5 billion US dollars over four years, of the 6.7 billion flowed. A in October due Rate of 1.7 billion dollars, the IMF has not disbursed.
The foreign Minister Ayrault and Steinmeier join the flight to Kiev
Also, the Federal government is pushing for the implementation of the reform plans. The events surrounding the resignation of the Economics Minister and promising stallion Aivaras Abromavicius would be right as a Wake-up call to the leadership of the country understood, warned the German Foreign office. Abromavicius had his resignation at the beginning of February, in the fight against corruption to be little support for it.
kle/OS (dpa, afp, rtr)