Berlin – The steps taken so far by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to meet the opposition's demands, are not sufficient to end the crisis in the country, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
“The offers of President Yanukovych have not yet reached an adequate level of reform and an adequate level of sharing of the future so that the opposition can, in fact, feel that it could legitimately come to the table and form some kind of a unity government,” he said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after their meeting in Berlin on Friday.
According to the U.S. secretary of state, if the Ukrainian government offers the opposition “genuine participation,” then it should take this chance, “because further standoff and further violence – or violence that becomes uncontrollable – is not in anybody’s interest.”
Kerry said that he would try to convince Moscow that Ukraine should decide its future without any coercion from outside.
