Merkel states European leaders not to recognize elections in self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republ
Source: Kiev Post
BERLIN - European leaders will consider illegal the outcome of the election scheduled for November 2, 2014 in eastern Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/01/ukraine-crisis-merkel-putin-idUSL5N0SQ3YL20141101 Europe won't recognise vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin
Oct 31 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday's planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognised by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday.
Merkel and Putin held a joint telephone conversation with French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Merkel's spokesman Georg Streiter said at a government news conference.
He said in the call there were diverging opinions on Sunday's "so-called elections" in the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
"Merkel and Hollande underlined that there can only be a ballot in line with Ukrainian law," he said, adding that the vote would violate an agreement endorsed by Russia and further complicate efforts to end the crisis in eastern Ukraine.