On Wednesday 21 September, MEPs and their Ukrainian counterparts expressed their wish for a detailed roadmap to be agreed "as soon as possible" between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, outlining the different stages for implementing the Minsk agreements. This request had already been made by the Slovak minister for foreign affairs, Miroslav Lajčák, at the Gymnich, on 2 September(see EUROPE 11615).
In the joint conclusions adopted at the end of their two-day meeting in Kiev, the...