Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, who came to present his complaints to his EU counterparts on Monday 10 December, left with promises, but no further concrete EU action on the Azov Sea issue.
Thus, according to Mr Klimkin, the Europeans, in addition to the assurance that they would redouble their efforts to free Ukrainian seafarers arrested in the Azov Sea (see EUROPE 12124), indicated that they were considering the introduction of an international mechanism "for example...