Venizelos in Brussels to brief EU Foreign Ministers on Ukraine

Government Vice President and Foreign Minister Minister Evangelos Venizelos after the conclusion of his visit to Ukraine left for Brussels to participate on Monday in EU Foreign Ministers' extraordinary meeting in order to brief them about his meetings in Ukraine.

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Relations between Ukraine and Russia are key to more than the immediate region and must be resolved with self-restraint, calmness, dialogue and within international law and conventional agreements, government Vice President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos said on Sunday, after a meeting in Kiev with President of Ukrainian Parliament and acting President Oleksandr Turchynov and Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia.

The Greek official was paying an emergency visit on Sunday as chairman of the EU's Council of General Affairs, during Greece's EU Presidency according to ANA-MPA.

Venizelos expressed his satisfaction that the interim Ukrainian government has pledged to continue the process of Ukraine's membership in the European Union by signing the EU's Association Agreement.

Stressing the acute economic crisis Ukraine is facing, the Greek Foreign minister said that, as he came from a country with comparable experience and relevant know-how, he proposed an international convention to examine how the country could be financially supported, as the intervention of the International Monetary Fund would not be enough.

"Greece, as president of the European Union's Council, wants to contribute to the best degree possible to normalisation of the situation in UKraine," Venizelos said before his meetings in Kiev.