Kiev Refuses to Accept Any Deal Threatening Country's Sovereignty, PM Says

© AFP 2023 / JIM WATSON / POOLUS Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Sputnik International
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said Kiev would never accept anything that undermined Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence and European future.

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KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Thursday that Kiev would not accept any crisis settlement plan for eastern Ukraine if it undermined the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

"The most important is peace, but we will never accept anything that undermines Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence and European future," Yatsenyuk told reporters at a joint news briefing with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

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Talks on reconciliation of the internal conflict in eastern Ukraine have to date been conducted in four formats. These include Minsk, Weimar, Geneva and Normandy, the last of which is composed of German, French, Russian and Ukrainian leaders.

On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, currently in Kiev, are expected to visit Moscow in hopes of reaching a deal that would "satisfy all sides of the conflict" and end the recent surge in hostilities.

The head of Russia's lower parliamentary house foreign affairs committee, Alexei Pushkov, underscored Paris and Berlin's influence over Ukraine. Pushkov said in an interview with Radio RSN earlier in the day that Merkel and Hollande could "convince Kiev" to immediately cease hostilities.

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