Hollande, Merkel head to Ukraine on Thursday with new peace plan

2015/02/05
France's President Francois Hollande (R) talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Reuters / Daniel Dal Zennaro)

"Together with Angela Merkel we have decided to take a new initiative," Hollande told a news conference. "We will make a new proposal to solve the conflict which will be based on Ukraine's territorial integrity."


"In view of the escalating violence in recent days, the chancellor and President Hollande are intensifying their efforts, which have been going on for months, for a peaceful settlement to the conflict in eastern Ukraine," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.


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