Angela Merkel has been talking about Ukraine in Warsaw (courtesy of RFE/RL's news desk):
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on April 27 that international sanctions imposed on Russia should depend on whether peacekeeping commitments signed this year in Minsk are upheld.
Merkel, at a news conference with Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz in Warsaw, said that, at the European Council meeting in March, the EU "took an unambiguous decision that the sanctions were related to completing the Minsk agreements."
She said "It is clear that completing this package is taking longer" and will be dealt with in June.
Kopacz said that Merkel agreed with her that the sanctions that have already been imposed on Russia should be maintained.
The main topics for discussion between Merkel and Kopacz are expected to be the conflict in Ukraine as well as preparations for the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit next month in Latvia's capital, Riga.
The Eastern Partnership brings together the European Union and the ex-Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
(Reuters, dpa)