Ukraine NATO Membership Is Denied as Germany Seeks Easing
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Germany’s top diplomat said Ukraine won’t join NATO and urged Russia to move troops away from the Ukrainian border, saying it would be a “small signal” that the crisis is easing.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French and Polish counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Radoslaw Sikorski, said the European Union should forge closer ties with former Soviet republics without harming relations with Russia. The three met today in the eastern German city of Weimar.