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All parties in Ukraine conflict are open to dialogue – and at the same time they build on their Drohkulissen: U.S. President Barack Obama about planning military aid for Ukraine, Chancellor Merkel advises at the G7 Summit on further sanctions against Russia.

Two step back, one forward: In the diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict, Ukraine sign of relaxation change with new power demonstrations from.

U.S. President Barack Obama said the Ukraine on Tuesday at a meeting with the President-elect Petro Poroshenko comprehensive support to – including military aid . Thus , according to the U.S. Poroshenko support the “anti- terror fight ” against the pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country . Obama has promised the delivery of ” non-lethal equipment,” Poroshenko said on Wednesday , according to media in Kiev .

While Obama Russia subsequently designated as the aggressor in a speech in the Polish capital, and it is facing a military threat of a NATO state warned unequivocally in Eastern and Central Europe, the characters were more fully elsewhere careful to approach : Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told the French radio station Europe 1 and TF1, he was ready for talks with Obama. “It ‘s his decision , I am ready to dialogue. ” Putin said he hoped that the current situation does not constitute a new stage of the Cold War .

Ukraine Crisis:US is not a model

Putin accused the United States before , however , to be anything but a role model. “It’s no secret that American policy is the most aggressive and hardest . ” Unlike the U.S. , Russia has stationed virtually no troops abroad.

His Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued to verbally de-escalate , but also pushed a critique of the West afterwards : “I hope that the current crisis is a kind of refreshing thunderstorm , which will allow the relationships with our Western partners on a healthier and more honest basis to set , “Lavrov said, according to Interfax news agency .

The events in Ukraine were ” nothing new ” , but the ” culmination of the anti-Russian course” Western countries . Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian interests were repeatedly ignored. As an example, Lavrov called the NATO eastward enlargement .

In addition, Lavrov accused the West of neglecting pressing international crises because of Ukraine conflict. Exemplary Lavrov called Syria, Iran’s nuclear program , Afghanistan and the Middle East. Russia was more willing to participate equally in a solution of these questions.

Ukraine Crisis:Other possible sanctions against Russia

Conflicts, such as Syria, Libya, and the terror of Boko Haram in Nigeria are according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel also on the agenda of the major industrialized nations meet in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday – but for the first time in 16 years without Russia as G7. The annexation of the Crimea had made the inevitable exclusion of Moscow at the meeting, Merkel said in her policy statement in Berlin.

Merkel also put pressure on – to de-escalate in the simultaneous attempt. Thus, it is not excluded that economic sanctions stage three would be launched against Russia , the situation in Ukraine should be worse. But actually it does not want sanctions , Merkel said. Rather, the dialogue and diplomatic efforts would have to be brought forward.
This is where Obama’s closest European allies on approach : Merkel, French President François Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to meet on the edge of the 70-year celebration of the Allied landing in Normandy with Putin for talks .

Also Poroshenko included a direct meeting with the Kremlin leader is not enough. The festivities he wants to bring a peace plan for Ukraine , which he wanted to discuss there at government level with the European Union. The peace plan is projected to Poroshenko ” establish law and order.” It also provides , therefore, before a decentralized power distribution , an amnesty program and the preparation of local elections.

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