The agenda of the summit meeting in Berlin on Aug. 24 will be very wide and will include Russia's failure to complete the obligations it undertook to settle the situation in Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.
“The summit with the participation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Berlin will take place upon the initiative of Ukraine. The agenda is very wide. Surely, the top priority is the security and the situation that’s not satisfying for us, particularly the failure to execute key points of the obligations Russia undertook,” he told journalists on Aug. 20 in Kyiv.
Poroshenko said this concerns the withdrawal of heavy weaponry and military equipment. In addition, he said that the OSCE SMM’s access to shelled areas would be discussed as well.
“We must coordinate our actions, as the key task of Ukrainian authority is the formation of a powerful international community as a united coalition that must stop the aggressor. It includes both clearly coordinated actions in the country’s east and clearly coordinated steps on not recognizing Crimea’s annexation,” he said.
Poroshenko also said that the coordination of actions on Ukraine’s path to a visa-free regime with the EU will be discussed as well.
