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February 16, 2018 www.intellinews.com I Page 6
The Saakashvili saga will not help Ukraine’s case with the international community, which has already started to suffer from “Ukraine fatigue”. The Minsk II accord designed to bring an end to the fighting in the country’s eastern regions has stalled and all the deadlines set in the document for the end of 2015 have been missed.
However, no alternative plan has been suggested other than by former German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who suggested a
phased approach where the targets in Minsk II were made more specific and smaller, and more concrete rewards were set for meeting these less ambitious goals. However, this idea never gained traction and with Steinmeier’s departure from the foreign office after he was made Germany’s president last year, the idea is dead. Indeed,
in January German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that there was no alternative to Minsk II as the EU renewed its sanction regime on Russia for another six months.
April 19–20, 2018, London
VII Cbonds Emerging Markets Bond Conference
About the event
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