Moscow will act as a responsible partner in the negotiations on the Transnistrian settlement, and at the same time, other participants, and among them, Kiev, trying to revise its basic principles, said on the first day of the week the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..
in the negotiations on the Transnistrian settlement in the format " 5 2 " participate Moldova And Transnistria, as parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine And the OSCE as mediators, the European Union And the USA as observers. Kiev round of negotiations will be the fifth In the current year And ending under the Ukrainian chairmanship in the OSCE.
" Ukraine And Russia have the highest status in the top five (partners in the Transnistrian settlement process): We intermediaries And guarantors (the peace process). And, of course, such a high status imposes a special responsibility, where the most important thing to follow the principles on which the process was started, And try not to take anyone's side, " Lavrov said, speaking through open lectures by senior government And political figures of Russia in the project " Civic University ".
according to him, " Russia with great responsibility comes to these duties "." We will never do anything that could be construed as bias in favor of one side or the other. Our partners, as well as among them Ukrainian, unfortunately, are trying to revise the basic principles of the Transnistrian settlement And do it for the sake of the Chisinau authorities ", - noted the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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