The head of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin proposes to use the resource of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly winter session which opens on Wednesday in Vienna to support the efforts of the "channel four" on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine.

"We are obliged to apply the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to Express support" channel four ", to Express support for a peace settlement in Ukraine ", - told reporters the head of the lower house of the Russian Parliament.

He ordered the Chairman of the Duma of the Department on international Affairs Alexei Puchkova in his speech before the European Parliament to draw attention to the possibilities of this organization (OSCE PA) for monitoring the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In this context, He noticed that unlike the other European sites - PACE - which has covered itself in shame at the last session (in January) and put an end to the parliamentary Assembly as a platform for equal democratic dialogue, "the OSCE PA" is a thoughtful, balanced approach in the analysis of the situation in Ukraine, in the South-East of the country."

the head of the state Duma recalled that at the initiative of the Russian side in the OSCE PA was established parliamentary liaison group on Ukraine." as long as it has not begun its work because of the position of the most important of the U.S. delegation, " He summed up." I realize how complicated the dialogue most importantly with our Ukrainian colleagues, but there is no alternative to dialogue, and we must do everything to ensure that attempts parts of the figures that are on the other side of the Atlantic, to derail the dialogue were suppressed, " he finished Naryshkin.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone.

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