Minsk Summit Highlights A Shaky NATO Union – Russia Is Far From Isolated
By: GoldCore
GoldSeek.com
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
– Merkel and Hollande to attend peace talks in Belarus to resolve Ukraine’s civil war today
– US and UK not invited
– Germany and US present united front but tensions ripple under the surface
– Foreign Minister of Greece, Nikolaos Kotzias, to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov today as the crucial Eurogroup of finance ministers meet to determine the fate of Greece and the Euro
– Russia negotiates free-trade agreement with Egypt. Cyprus permits Russia to use ports and airstrips for humanitarian and emergency purposes
The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine will meet in the Belarusian capital of Minsk today in a bid to resolve Ukraine’s brutal civil war.
The meeting, which the Russia Today news agency describe as a Franco-German peace initiative, will not include the leaders of the US or Britain.
RT suggests that the talks were triggered by John Kerry’s visit to Kiev where he announced the possibility of the US arming Ukraine government troops adding that “Europe is reluctant to have a full-blown war on its doorstep.”
Preliminary talks between Merkel, Hollande and Putin in Moscow on Friday were held behind closed doors. On Monday Merkel met with Obama in Washington. While they tried to present a united front the subtext of their statements and their body language gave a different impression.
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