Ukraine supports the idea of holding the talks in Geneva

Ukraine welcomes the initiative to hold in Geneva a new round of negotiations on Ukrainian problems, host meetings on the matter, said on the first day of the week, the Director of Department of information policy of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen perebyinis.

" We commend the initiative on holding the next round of consultations between the parties of the Geneva agreements. Currently in respect of this undergo intensive meetings between all stakeholders, " said Predrag at a press conference.

according to him, to talk about the place and date of holding a new round of negotiations is premature, however, according to the messenger of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry, dialogs have the opportunity to be held before the presidential elections, appointed by the Parliament on 25 may.

" We believe that a new meeting in the case will be achieved consensus on its conduct, must go in the same format as Geneva. It is important that during its implementation was given a detailed evaluation of the implementation by all parties of the Geneva agreements, " added Predrag. He believes that during the meeting the parties ' attention must be paid to the priorities of de-escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, and such priority, according to him, must be the holding of early elections of the President of Ukraine.

Authorized Russia, USA, European Union and Ukraine on April 17, adopted in Geneva document on the Ukrainian crisis, which agitates the parties to the conflict to refrain from violence, extremism and provocations, to disarm illegal formation, release the illegally occupied buildings and to initiate a national dialogue on constitutional reform.

As he said later the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century, the current government of Ukraine has not fulfilled any of items received in Geneva document. Russian foreign Ministry believes that Kiev and Washington distorted interpret the Geneva consensus.

the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin in a telephone conversation with Chancellor Angela Merkel drew attention to the necessity of establishing a direct dialogue between the present authorities in Kiev and representatives of the South-East of Ukraine. According to the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin, Moscow hopes that the West will persuade Kiev to start a dialogue with the South-East of the country.

in recent days the Ukrainian law enforcers are conducting large-scale operations in the South-East of Ukraine on the suppression of protests by supporters of federalization that have not agreed to violent change of power in Kiev and in favour of holding a referendum on the status of areas. The main centers of resistance are Donetsk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and other cities of Donetsk region, as well as Lugansk.


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