European Union foreign ministers met for a second day in the Latvian capital of Riga on Saturday, devoting most of their time to the crisis in Ukraine.
Many ministers pinned their hopes for peace on the success of the latest Minsk cease-fire agreement and said the EU should only consider tightening sanctions on Russia if the agreement was seriously violated.
The European Union’s Foreign Policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the EU is “extremely realistic about the developments in Russia.”
“But we’ll never be trapped, or forced, or pushed, or pulled into a confrontative (sic) attitude,” she said. “We still believe that around our …read more
Source: Voice of America
