The head of the EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini and Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century held a telephone conversation, during which he discussed the supply of gas from Russia to the European Union and circumstances with the implementation of the Minsk agreements in Ukraine, reports the Agency.

The conversation between the head of EU diplomacy and the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation lasted for 20 minutes. In the conversation, Mogherini and Lavrov also discussed Iran's nuclear program and discussed how to achieve a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Libya.

according to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in the process of the discussion was task execution Minsk agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian fall and the support of the OSCE mission in Ukraine and certain aspects of the relationship between Russia and the EU, including the issues of energy cooperation and interaction on the situation in Libya.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began almost 5, 7 thousands of civilians. Refugees and IDPs were more than 1 million people. The region was on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.


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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