FRANCE-UKRAINE-DIPLOMACY

French President Francois Hollande (L) welcomes the head of the Ukrainian UDAR (PUNCH) party Vitali Klitschko (R), the Ukrainian member of parliament and businessman Petro Poroshenko (2nd R), and French author and film director Bernard-Henri Levy prior to a meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on March 7, 2014. France will not send any ministers to the Sochi Paralympics to protest Russia's position in the Ukraine crisis, Paris said on March 7 hours before the opening of the Winter Games. "They won't be there. It would have been very inappropriate for French ministers to be there," France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French radio, adding that French athletes will participate. AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)