Credit: Reuters/Laurent Dubrule
Newly elected EU Foreign Policy Chief, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, holds a news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels September 2, 2014.
'I consider today's 'presidential and parliamentary elections' in Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics' a new obstacle on the path toward peace in Ukraine. The vote is illegal and illegitimate, and the European Union will not recognize it,' Mogherini said in a statement after pro-Russian rebels elected a separatist leadership.
Early local elections in accordance with Ukrainian law, as foreseen in the Minsk agreement, were 'the legal and legitimate means of renewing the democratic mandate of the local authorities in these parts of Ukraine. I call on all sides to work toward such elections,' she said.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; editing by Robert-Jan Bartunek)
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