President Barroso: phone calls with President Poroshenko and President Putin on the situation in Ukraine

EU News 341/2014

Brussels, 11 August 2014
IP/14/921

President Barroso made separate telephone calls today to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the situation in Ukraine.

In both phone calls, President Barroso expressed the EU’s increasing concern regarding the humanitarian impact of the on-going conflict in eastern Ukraine, especially the civilian casualties. President Barroso called for the respect of international humanitarian law and for humanitarian organisations to be supported and facilitated in their present efforts to increase the assistance to all of the population in need.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-921_en.htm?locale=en

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