Chizhov: Russia will continue to provide diplomatic support to the Donbass

Regardless of the outcome of negotiations leaders "channel four" in Minsk Moscow will continue to provide diplomatic support to the people of Eastern Ukraine, said permanent Commissioner Russia to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov.
"As for the moral and political support to the residents of Donbas and Eastern Ukraine, then she can continue regardless of the negotiations," showed Chizhov in conversation CN CN, reports a news Agency. To a journalist's question about what Russia is trying to achieve from the meeting in Minsk, the Russian Ambassador to the EU said: "Russia has a number of suggestions. In essence, the source Minsk consensus was based on the suggestions of the first President (Vladimir) Putin." They included military regulations, such as the cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the separating side of the line, as well as political elements, such as granting special status to the Eastern regions of Ukraine, elections, Amnesty That was never implemented ", - summed up Chizhov. Approval of a journalist about the fact That the Ministers of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin and Russia S. Lavrov Century did not support contacts for the past 2 weeks and didn't talk during the Munich security conference, Chizhov said as follows: "it shall be, that was his (klimkina) choice. "" a few days before the conference in Munich Klimkin said in an interview That there are no plans to meet with Lavrov, said the Russian Ambassador to the EU.- so, the story is not about the inability to hold a meeting, but reluctance ". Answering the question about whether Russia's territorial integrity of Ukraine, Chizhov showed: "certainly Yes, we are committed to the territorial integrity of Ukraine in its current form. I mean, not to mention the Crimea, which is now part of Russia. In conversation CN CN Chizhov also said That found on the Eastern Ukraine Russian tanks do not argue about the fact That the Russian Federation provide military assistance to the militia of Donbass, because these tanks can be found in the world, They were made, and among them, and Ukraine.


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