... Development of Relations between the European Union and Russia, and Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to Russia.
The discussion focused on the results of the Norman Four meeting held in Paris and possible further steps to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine. The participants also touched upon a wide range of issues in relations between Russia and the European Union, including environmental and climate change issues, new mechanisms for strategic and conventional weapons control, conflicts in Syria ...
... settlement, then for stopping the five-year war. Given the current unclear trajectory of US-Russian relations, it looks very unlikely that this bilateral track could lead to even limited progress in Donbass anytime soon. The time has come to reactivate the Normandy Format process at its top political level. The pause in the Minsk process has been too long, and there is a growing danger that we will lose the only legitimate mechanism of managing the crisis in and around Ukraine.
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Second, assuming that there is visible progress in implementing the Minsk agreements, there might be an opportunity to modify the EU’s mechanism for Russian sanctions....
