KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The threat of new protest violence in Ukraine is tapering off but the country’s two-month-old political and economic crisis remains far from being resolved, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Wednesday.

EU envoy Catherine Ashton spoke after meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych, who has been the focus of months of massive protests demanding his resignation.

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