No one guarantees that peace negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will be held without problems. About this at a meeting of the diplomatic club “Culture without borders: the role and development of cultural diplomacy” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.
“The Americans supported the proposal of the president of [Russia Vladimir Putin], it is necessary to negotiate a chance. No one guarantees that everything will be smooth, without problems,” the minister said, noting that no one guarantees that everything will be without problems and smoothly.
“On the contrary, the problems will be necessarily”, as it was in Istanbul three years ago, when “already paraapid principles were ready” in order to put them on contract paper, ”said Lavrov, recalling that the British forbade Kyiv to continue this process.
“To be honest, the British as a guide, Vladimir Zelensky in the jungle of world politics, lead (President of Ukraine). Already some adviser to the Prime Minister of Britain in national security is seconded to Zelensky so that he does not bother and finally not buried his reputation and at the same time the reputation of those who train him,” says Lavrov.
According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in the West they do not even hide that a truce is needed to “pump” Ukraine with weapons.
“[President of France Emmanuel] Macron was asked in an interview, and he says – it is needed, therefore, negotiations, meetings. But we must do everything so that the main truce is, and Ukraine should approach the negotiations from the position of power. Here is an elementary answer, this is a sincere confession, why is a truce, so that Ukraine is prepared for negotiations from the standpoint of strength,” Lavrov.
The minister emphasized that the position of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian settlement is to achieve a long -term solution.
The president spoke about this repeatedly. In June last year, speaking at the Foreign Ministry, he set out our entire position, which is not the need to coordinate in order to again pump Ukraine with weapons and to teach it to continue, but to ensure a long -term sustainable settlement that rightly reflects the interests of all the parties involved, ”said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.