LAVROV: RUSSIA CANNOT LOSE UKRAINE

October 19, 2014 

Maxim Nikitin

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He said that Russia would support all efforts designed to implement the agreements, including those reached in Minsk that are already being implemented

MOSCOW, October 19 /TASS/. Ukraine is the closest fraternal nation for Russia with which it has “common historical, cultural and civilization roots, the same world outlook as well as language and literature, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russia’s NTV television channel.

Lavrov: gap in international relations is fraught with expansion of crisis zones

“We cannot lose Ukraine because it is not confined to a group of persons who committed a state coup and seized power; it is not confined to the Nazis who continue marching in Kiev and other big cities committing acts of vandalism, destroying monuments and glorifying Hitler’s accomplices,” Lavrov said.

“What’s happening in relations between our presidents proves that we are going to find the way out of the crisis anyway and will help the Ukrainian brothers to agree on how they should build and develop their country,” the Russian foreign minister told NTV.

He said that Russia would support all efforts designed to implement the agreements, including those reached in Minsk that are already being implemented, and those that were reached with participation of Russia, the United States and the European Union in Geneva this year.

In Geneva, the Ukrainians undertook a commitment to immediately start an open comprehensive and accountable national dialogue on the constitutional reform that was supposed to involve representatives of all regions and political forces in Ukraine, the Russian foreign minister said adding that “for some reasons unknown to us, this commitment has never been implemented.”