Kerry And Lavrov Announce Deal To ‘De-Escalate Tensions’ In Ukraine

Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have announced an agreement to “de-escalate tensions” that have been running high in Ukraine.

“We adopted a document, the Geneva statement of April 17, where we agreed on immediate initial steps to de-escalate tensions,” Lavrov told reporters after half a day of talks in Geneva.

“All illegal armed groups must be disarmed, illegally seized buildings returned to their rightful owners,” he said of the agreement reached with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

He did not elaborate. But the statement could potentially be referring to pro-Kremlin separatists who have wreaked havoc in Ukraine’s southeast in recent days, occupying state buildings in several towns and cities in what has severely destabilised the country.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.