Geneva talks end in tentative agreement
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
18.04.2014 14:03
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Geneva talks end in agreement - for now... John Beauchamp reports.
While top diplomats in Geneva thrashed out an agreement to deescalate the crisis in Ukraine, a bilateral meeting between Poland’s defence minister and his American opposite number agreed that the US will boost its air force presence in Poland until the end of the year.
Masked Pro-Russian men sit inside the seized city hall of Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 April 2014. Three pro-Russian protesters were killed, 13 injured and 64 arrested during an attack of pro-Russian protesters on a Ukrainian National Guard base in the Black Sea port of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said. Photo: PAP/EPA/ANASTASIA VLASOVA
As John Beauchamp reports, a visit by Poland’s defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak to the United States has managed to push the US into beefing up its presence in Poland until the end of the year.
“This is a clear demonstration of America’s bilateral commitment to Poland, and to our other NATO allies in the region,” Chuck Hagel said in Washington following the meeting with his Polish opposite number.
The move comes as the foreign ministers of the US, EU, Ukraine and Russia met in the Swiss town of Geneva to try and find a way to deescalate the crisis in Ukraine.
“This day’s work has produced commitments,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said, adding that “what is important is these words are translated immediately into actions.”