12:25 07.02.2017

EU to continue to support Ukraine, expects violence in Donbas to stop

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EU to continue to support Ukraine, expects violence in Donbas to stop

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has expressed concern about the deteriorating situation in Donbas.

"The European Union will continue to support Ukraine with a special focus on the delivery of services to the population and trying to make sure that the conditions in the country improve for the people," High Representative Federica Mogherini said at a press conference in Brussels on Monday.

At the same time, she stressed that this requires improvements in the security situation in Ukraine.

"And, obviously, this requires also a better security situation, and the situation in the east in the last days was definitively extremely worrying for us. So when we refer to the full implementation of the Minsk agreements, we obviously restate our expectation that the fighting stops there and that a process of peace can be started effectively," she said.

The participants of the EU ministerial meeting again said they are ready to support the settlement process within the Normandy format and the OSCE, Mogherini said.

She also noted that the ministers discussed the support to reforms in Ukraine, in particular in social and economic area and in the area of the fight against corruption.

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