Posted on 02/08/2015 10:51:06 AM PST by alexmark1917
URGENT: French President Hollande calls for broader autonomy for E.#Ukraine http://t.co/mTc6gAoI9J pic.twitter.com/bs4f105GjR
— RT (@RT_com) February 7, 2015
Progress in solving Ukrainian crisis impossible to achieve through arms supplies - Merkel http://t.co/ULTe0it5p0 pic.twitter.com/6bgYJnGoRx
— RT (@RT_com) February 7, 2015
French President Hollande calls for broader autonomy for E.Ukraine
French President Francois Hollande called for “quite strong” autonomy for Ukraine’s eastern regions while speaking on France 2 TV. He also revealed part of the joint plan discussed in Moscow on the conflict’s solution.
On Saturday, Hollande said that the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk need “rather strong” autonomy from Kiev.
“These people have gone to war," Hollande explained. "It will be difficult to make them share a common life [with Kiev]."
The French President also revealed part of the joint document under negotiation between Berlin, Moscow, Paris and Kiev. He said it will feature a 50- to 70-kilometer demilitarized zone on each side of the current line dividing militia-held and Kiev-controlled territories.
The revelation comes after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande discussed the situation with the Ukrainian president on Thursday and came to Moscow on Friday to meet President Vladimir Putin. The talks lasted nearly five hours and were characterized as 'constructive' by all sides.
http://rt.com/news/230251-ukraine-plan-autonomy-hollande/
Hopes for breakthrough: Moscow talks on Ukraine 'constructive,' joint doc 'possible'
Five hour-long Moscow talks behind closed doors between the leaders of Russia, France and Germany have brought hopes for further dialogue between Kiev and E. Ukraine. The meeting was said to be 'constructive', but peace plan details remain a mystery.
Journalists were given a mere 30 seconds to take photographs of the three leaders, and none of them uttered a single word to the press during the photo-shoot.
Friday’s visit by President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Moscow was a hasty one. No usual diplomatic rituals – European leaders headed straight to the Kremlin from the airport and were on their flights back very quickly after the talks.
Journalists, who spent five hours waiting had to eventually make do with only an afterword from the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, which didn’t shed much light on what the leaders actually talked about.
“On the basis of proposals made by the French President and German Chancellor, there is currently on-going joint work to prepare the text of a possible joint document on the implementation of the Minsk agreements – a document that would include proposals made by Ukrainian President Poroshenko and proposals put forward today by Russian President Putin,” Peskov said.
http://rt.com/news/230123-putin-hollande-merkel-talks/
Hollande: If lasting Ukraine peace not found 'scenario is war'
The Franco-German peace initiative could be the last ditch attempt to end the war in Ukraine, French President Francois Hollande said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes the crisis cannot be solved militarily.
Hollande described the peace talks he and Merkel held with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine this week as “one of the last chances” for peace.
"If we don't find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war," Hollande told journalists in the city of Tulle in central France, according to Reuters.
Earlier on Saturday, Angela Merkel was sharing her vision of the possible solution to the Ukraine crisis at the Munich Security Conference.
“The Ukrainian crisis cannot be resolved militarily,” she said.
http://rt.com/news/230211-hollande-war-merkel-ukraine/
BOTH Hollande and Merkel ordered their aides out of the meeting with Putin. So far, very little has leaked about what was being said.
And they didn’t even tell the Obamunist Administration in DC what they were doing, which says TONS about what is happeneing.
America is rudderless. It’s not pretty.
how nice of them...next will come autonomy for the moslems that live in the Ukraine from Kiev...& on goes the memory of a nation that once called itself Ukraine...while elitist in Europe decides its fate...
Appeasing Hitler worked, remember “peace in our time”!
Wait. Is the sole source of this RT? If so, it’s all crap.
They’ll be about as autonomous as Sudantenland was.
Strategic Pause = re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
It tells me they would rather cede recognition of Easter Ukraine to Russia than deny the reality on the ground.
The Obaumists are but yielding to the McCain/Graham faction of the Uniparty when they propose weapons for Ukraine.
It's some form of collective insanity and demonstrates this administration COMPLETELY incompetent and dangerous.
Autonomy for the Donbas means autonomy for Galicia is not far behind.
Lets see the Ukie junta survive without their western nazis
Sold out to Russia—watch as they sell their ship to Putin. They will keep EU from getting involved.
Peace in our time! All it will cost us is some Sudetenland
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