Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Sunday that a group of countries, including the constant members of the United Nations Security Council, should be guarantees of Ukrainian security.
Reuters reported that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin demands that Ukraine leave the Eastern Region Donbas, to join NATO, remain neutral and not the presence of Western troops, according to the three sources of the highest level of Kremlin.
Lavrov told NBC News “Meet The Press” that Putin and former US President Donald Trump discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and that Putin mentioned failed negotiations from Istanbul 2022. Years.
At these negotiations, Russia and Ukraine discussed the permanent Neutrality of Ukraine in exchange for the security guarantees by the UN Security Council: Great Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, according to the draft agreement, which Reuters saw 2022. years.
Lavrov told NBC that a group of countries, including the members of the Security Council, should guarantee the security of Ukraine. In the group, as he said, Germany, Turkish and other countries could be included.
– and guarantors would guarantee the security of Ukraine, which must be neutral, unclassified in any military alliance and which must be non-uncle – said Lavrov, according to the transcript of the interview, which was published by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Lavrov also sentenced that Ukrainian membership in NATO is unacceptable for Russia, Russia wants protection for russian speakers in Ukraine and there is a territorial issue to be addressed with Ukraine.
(Vijesti.ba)
