Merkel: I would have liked another meeting on Ukraine while still Chancellor

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference in the Federal Chancellery following the video conference with the country's 16 state leaders on the surge in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caseses, in Berlin, Germany, November 18, 2021. Michael Kappeler/Pool via REUTERS

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia's decision to publish correspondence with the French and German governments concerning a failed meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the Ukraine crisis did nothing to make up for the failure to meet, Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

"The publication of letters isn't so surprising. I often read my own letters in the papers. We certainly have nothing to hide," she said.