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INTERNATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Ukraine president pushes for fast cease-fire
to the separatists.
While Germany and France
are facilitating talks, “the impor-
tant decisions must be made in
Moscow and Kiev” German For-
eign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier said.
Poroshenko told the Munich
conference that Ukraine stands
ready for a “comprehensive and
immediate cease-fire” and Rus-
sia should be too.
He indicated he wanted no
peacekeepers
Ukraine, saying they wouldn’t
be needed if foreign fighters
withdrew and the Ukraine-Rus-
sia border was sealed. Then, he
said, there would be “peace and
stability in Ukraine ... within a
couple of weeks.”
“There is no temporary solu-
tion — this conflict must be re-
solved, not frozen,” he said, al-
luding to long-time conflicts in-
volving breakaway regions in
Georgia and Moldova.
Later, Poroshenko suggested
the Ukrainian side could be flex-
ible on certain issues. He said he
was open to discussing the size
and contours of a proposed buff-
er zone separating the combat-
ants, and was prepared to put
the question of federalization to
a referendum.
Merkel said it is uncertain
whether the talks will succeed,
“but it is, from my point of view
and that of the French president,
in any case worth making this
attempt.”
Biden agreed that an attempt
was worthwhile but said Russia
must be judged by its actions,
“not by the paper they signed.”
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov also said he
hoped for results.
As soon as Kiev and eastern
Ukrainian separatists agree on
practical details of implement-
ing the Minsk deal, “I am sure
that Russia will be among those
parties that will guarantee the
implementation of this agree-
ment,” Lavrov told the confer-
ence. “But you can only guaran-
tee what has already been
achieved.”
The United States and other
Western countries contend Rus-
sia has supplied troops and
equipment to the separatists in
eastern Ukraine who have been
fighting Ukrainian government
forces since April. Russia denies
the claims.
Lavrov also denounced
“growing appeals in the West to
... pump Ukraine full with lethal
weapons and to involve it in
NATO.” He said that “this posi-
tion will only exacerbate the
tragedy of Ukraine.”
Poroshenko said talk of lethal
weapons had been overdone
and pointed to interest in equip-
ment such as radar and jam-
ming stations.
Ukraine has “proven to be re-
sponsible, that we will not use
the defensive equipment to the
attack,” he said. “The stronger
our defense, the more convinc-
ing is our diplomatic voice.”
Meanwhile, fighting contin-
ued in eastern Ukraine. Five
Ukrainian servicemen were
killed and 26 wounded in fight-
ing over the past day, Ukrainian
security council spokesman Vo-
lodymyr Polyoviy said Saturday.
The government website in the
port city of Mariupol said one
man was killed in shelling of the
outlying settlement of Gnutove,
which it blamed on rebels.
By Geir Moulson
Associated Press
MUNICH — Ukraine’s pres-
ident pushed for both a quick
cease-fire in his country’s trou-
bled east and defensive weapons
from the West, as mediators
sought momentum Saturday for
a deal to stem the fighting at Eu-
rope’s edge.
Petro Poroshenko and Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
are to confer with the leaders of
Germany and France by phone
today in an effort to overcome
months of setbacks and suspi-
cion and breathe new life into a
much-violated September peace
plan. But even those who had
scheduled the call were cautious
about its prospects.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel
French President Francois Hol-
lande traveled to Kiev on Thurs-
day and Moscow on Friday —
acknowledged disillusionment
over the failure of previous
agreements to stick and said
“there are no theoretical guaran-
tees” that a new one would ei-
ther.
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eastern
in
Matthias Schrader/AP
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice Presi-
dent Joe Biden pose for the media prior to a meeting during a security conference Saturday in
Munich, Germany.
who along with
The resurgent fighting has
prompted the U.S. to consider
giving lethal weapons to
Ukraine, an option opposed by
European nations which fear
the move would merely exacer-
bate the situation.
“I cannot imagine any situa-
tion in which improved equip-
ment for the Ukrainian army
leads to President Putin being so
impressed that he believes he
will lose militarily,” Merkel said
at the Munich Security Confer-
ence. “I have to put it that blunt-
accept Ukraine anytime soon
because of its unstable politics
and endemic corruption.
France’s president said a new
peace deal could feature abroad
demilitarized zone and greater
autonomy for Ukraine’s separat-
ist eastern region. “These people
have gone to war,” Francois Hol-
lande said. “It will be difficult to
make them share a common
rity assistance not to encourage
war, but to allow Ukraine to de-
fend itself,” he said.
Russia’s most immediate
goal is likely the lifting of some of
the Western sanctions which, in
concert with plunging oil prices,
have driven the Russian econo-
my into a parlous state — or at
least to fend off the imposition of
further sanctions. In the longer
game, Russia has pushed for so-
called “federalization” of
Ukraine that would give broad
powers to its provinces and al-
low them to deal directly with
Moscow.
Russia also wants to keep
Ukraine out of NATO. Although
Ukraine dropped its nonalign-
ment policy last year, the West-
ern alliance would be unlikely to
Western anxiety over the
conflict is growing and sanc-
tions are taking a toll on Russia’s
economy. More than 5,300 peo-
ple have been killed since fight-
ing began in April, according to
a U.N. tally, and the bloodshed
has markedly increased over the
past two weeks.
“I do not believe there will be
a final solution on this situation.
Putin is still not weak enough to
accept that, and the West is not
strong enough to insist on its
terms,” said Igor Sutyagin, an
analyst with the Royal United
Services Institute in Britain.
life.’
The aim is to draw up a pos-
sible joint document on imple-
menting the September peace
plan concluded in Minsk, Bela-
rus. That widely disregarded
agreement also featured a de-
militarized zone, though the
battle lines have since changed,
and the government in Kiev has
offered a measure of autonomy
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U.S. Vice President Joe Bi-
den, who also attended the Mu-
nich conference, stopped short
of explicitly addressing possible
arms deliveries. ‘We will contin-
ue to provide Ukraine with secu-
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