Russia is seriously configured to continue the negotiation process on Ukrainian settlement in order to achieve agreements. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, reports TASS.
“Our approach to the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis remains unchanged. Russia is seriously configured to continue the negotiation process in order to reach some agreements. All the parameters of these negotiation processes were indicated by the Russian leadership,” the diplomat said.
touching the theme of Iran’s nuclear program, she noted that Washington and Tehran are known to Russia’s readiness to provide the necessary assistance in the study of certain aspects of the negotiation decision that they desired.
The diplomat emphasized that Russia “did not weaken for a minute for a minute in favor of a political and diplomatic settlement around the Iranian nuclear program.” “The indirect contacts of the United States and Iran, who were boring in April, gave some careful hope that the situation would still be displayed from a dangerous line by excluding any power scenarios that are regularly voiced to the Islamic Republic [Iran],” she said.
Speaking about the prospects of relations between the Russian Federation and Armenia, she indicated that there were no signals from Yerevan about the possible withdrawal of the Russian military base from the territory of Armenia.
as for the Russian military base deployed in Armenia, we did not receive any signals from Yerevan about its possible withdrawal. Officials of the republic confirm, including publicly that such issues are not worth it on the agenda, ”the diplomat said.
“In Yerevan, they understand that the Russian military presence is an important element of security architecture in the region, and in Armenia, and throughout the South Caucasus. The placement and functioning of the base is regulated by the relevant bilateral documents between Armenia and Russia,” said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
According to Zakharova, the Russian side expects that Azerbaijan and Armenia understand the concern of the Russian Federation in the region of NATO in the region of the South Caucasus and are aware of the risks of deepening interaction with such an “aggressive military bloc” as the North Atlantic Alliance.
“does not carry anything good for the safety of the South Caucasus. On the contrary, the main goal, as we perfectly understand, is the Westerners – to shake the region, to steal, to create new tension points. We hope that both in Baku and Yerevan understand how our reasonable concern about this is fully evaluated by the risks of deepening their interaction with aggressive military blocks, ”said the diplomat.