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Slovakia to host int'l peace conference on Ukraine

Xinhua, March 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Kosice, the biggest city in the Eastern Slovakia, is set to host a peace conference on the future of conflict-torn Ukraine on March 6-7, local news agency TASR reported Thursday.

The conference, aimed at endorsing the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk in February, will host mainly civil activists, academics and politicians from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Slovakia.

The event is initiated by the German-Russian Forum and the German-Ukrainian Forum in association with the Bratislava-based Institute ASA (Analyses-Strategies-Alternatives).

"The conference is built upon mapping experiences from the period of the Cold War, during which the sides divided by the Iron Curtain managed to maintain peace partly thanks to the peace initiatives of the 1970s and the 1980s," noted Vladimir Faic from Institute ASA.

"Today, the improbable is becoming probable, and the threat of war has become a European reality again for the first time in a long period. The only alternative to war is support for the peace dialogue of the two sides," he added. Endit