German minister to pay first visit to Moscow since February


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Nov 2014

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to Moscow on Tuesday for the first time since the Ukraine crisis erupted in February for talks on the escalating conflict in the former Soviet republic.

Steinmeier's spokesman Martin Schaefer told a government news conference that the minister would spend the morning in Kiev before travelling on to Moscow.

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