The meeting was supposed to be about Lebanon – but America’s John Kerry arrived at the Elysee Palace with his focus squarely on Ukraine. <br /><br />The talks with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and other European Foreign ministers on Wednesday in Paris are increasingly seen as a diplomatic opportunity to defuse the on-going crisis between Moscow and Kyiv. <br /><br />The US and Europe are pushing the Kremlin to accept international monitors in Crimea and negotiate a solution to the stand-off there through a “contact group, otherwise the West says it will be forced to consider sanctions against Russia.
