The French newspaper Le Monde says that the Hollande-Merkel plan is not meant to replace the Minsk Agreement, but to become a "road map" for their implementation. Le Journal du Dimanche writes that proposals of the West "are very different from the proposals made by the Russian side the other day." Citing sources in diplomatic circles, the newspaper reports that "the Russian document will not be taken by the West as a basis for negotiations."Another French newspaper Le Figaro notes that negotiations on Ukraine "stalled" not on the matters related to the underlying problems of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, but on such matters as the peacekeeping contigent.
The French newspaper Le Monde says that the Hollande-Merkel plan is not meant to replace the Minsk Agreement, but to become a "road map" for their implementation. Le Journal du Dimanche writes that proposals of the West "are very different from the proposals made by the Russian side the other day." Citing sources in diplomatic circles, the newspaper reports that "the Russian document will not be taken by the West as a basis for negotiations."Another French newspaper Le Figaro notes that negotiations on Ukraine "stalled" not on the matters related to the underlying problems of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, but on such matters as the peacekeeping contigent.
