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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:01 PM Jul 2015

Merkel, Hollande urge Ukraine leader to give rebels self-rule

Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Kiev (AFP) - German Chancellor Angel Merkel and French President Francois Hollande took the rare step Friday of pressing Ukraine's Western-backed leader to ensure partial self-rule for the pro-Russian separatist east.

The blunt message from two of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's most important allies marked another sign of European impatience with fighting that still engulfs the ex-Soviet nation five months after the signing of a broad truce.

The 13-point agreement reached in the Belarussian capital Minsk controversially guarantees three years of autonomy to militia-run districts of Ukraine's industrial provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk.

The mostly Russian-speaking regions -- dotted with war-shattered steel mills and coal mines that once fuelled Ukraine's economy -- want their special status spelled out in constitutional amendments that would be enormously difficult to overturn.

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Merkel, Hollande urge Ukraine leader to give rebels self-rule (Original Post) Little Tich Jul 2015 OP

Not "self Rule" - Federalization (like the US). But self rule makes a more exiting lead in. newthinking Jul 2015 #1

There has been movement Sunk in Tupelo Jul 2015 #2

You mean like how Russia honored the Kharkiv Pact? cstanleytech Jul 2015 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author newthinking Jul 2015 #4

In other words..... Xolodno Jul 2015 #5

newthinking

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1. Not "self Rule" - Federalization (like the US). But self rule makes a more exiting lead in.

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:57 PM

Jul 2015

What they are simply saying is: 'Honor the terms of the Minsk agreement'. Because the reason hope is being lost is because there has been no movement by Kiev on that central tenant in the agreement.

Sunk in Tupelo

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2. There has been movement

Reply to newthinking (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 12:29 AM

Jul 2015

as in, Kiev has continued bombing civilians and moving forward past the agreed upon lines. Even the OSCE acknowledges this.The OSCE report states that the government has not made the Right Sector paramilitaries withdraw and is instead still using them. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/171516