the meeting As a gesture of good will before the upcoming summit on the conflict in Ukraine has returned Russia to the neighboring country of three of the seized marine boats. The Delivery came on Monday off the coast of the Peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014. Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that he would travel on Monday night in the Ukraine. This is also a sign of support and solidarity for the government there, said a spokesman for the Minister.
Russia had been denied in November of 2018, the three Ukrainian marine boats in the entrance to the Strait of Kerch between the Black sea and the Azov sea. Russia seized the boats and arrested the 24 sailors. They came free in September in the Wake of a prisoner exchange again.
the return of The boats comes just a few weeks before the new summit to the peace process in Eastern Ukraine. The French President’s office announced on Friday that the next summit in the so-called “Normandy Format” of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will on 9. December will take place in Paris. The Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in it. The spokesman of the foreign Minister Maas said, with the visit in Ukraine Maas wool explore also, what are the concrete next steps could be implemented in the Normandy Format.
It is the first summit would be meeting in this Format for more than three years. In the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, more than 13,000 people have been killed since Pro-Russian separatists in 2014, the control over large parts of the Region acquisitions. (reuters)
Created: 18.11.2019, 18:54 PM