“Peace and freedom in Europe have no value,” she said Foreign Minister Analena Berbock during a joint press conference she gave with her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian. The two officials stressed the determination of their countries and the European Union to impose, if necessary, further sanctions on Russia, while once again criticizing the attitude of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
President Putin is showing “utter contempt for the peace process in Europe,” Ms Burbock said, adding that anyone who says one thing and does another “is lying in German.” “The world is different now that Putin has ‘broken’ the Minsk Agreement. The international community will not accept the violation of international law by Russia“, The minister added and stressed that the partners are ready for any eventuality. “We are taking on the economic consequences of a democratic, sovereign and free state Ukraine“Thus, the EU, the US, Japan and Australia” have decided on a targeted and tough package of sanctions, which could at any time be tightened, “warned Alelena Berbok, accusing the Russian President of indifference to the consequences of a possible conflict for civilians. “We can not close our eyes to the dramatic situation,” he countered, stressing that “it is now up to the other side to come to the table.”
The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian“Everything is possible, even worse, when you have mobilized 140,000 troops,” he said earlier in the day, when asked if the Russian president had In order to occupy the whole of Ukraine, he stated that “it is not in his mind”, but the threat scenario exists.
Mr Lendrian declined to comment on whether Vladimir Putin remained a credible interlocutor. “He generally does not keep the commitments he is making,” he said, adding that he was in a mood of revisionism, which he said he was following through tension, confusion, manipulation and ambiguity. Regarding the sanctions imposed, he spoke of “speed, unity and solidarity with Ukraine” and stressed that their aim was to specifically Russia Putin “, including members of the Duma who support his policies. “The situation is slowly becoming uncomfortable for them,” Le Drian said, noting that the hand of diplomacy remains outstretched, “but Putin must catch it.”
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