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The authorities in Kyiv, helped by a number of Western countries, have been grossly violating the requirements of the United Nations Security Counci resolution on the inquiry into the Malaysian Boeing crash in Ukraine, thus preventing international experts from starting their work at the scene, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“We insist on strict compliance with this resolution, especially,
where it stipulates an immediate end to hostilities in the zone where
the aircraft debris fell,” Lavrov told young Tajik diplomats during his
visit to Dushanbe on July 30.

“This requirement is being grossly violated by the Ukrainian military
with the connivance of a number of Kyiv’s Western protectors, which
prevents international experts from swiftly starting their work,” the
Russian minister said.

Moscow is also alarmed by the behavior of representatives from
several western countries, including those involved in agreeing the
Geneva Statement and other documents pertaining to the Ukrainian crisis,
Lavrov said.

“Instead of implementing the agreements they have effectively
encouraged the Ukrainian authorities to commit violence against their
own people. This is the only way to describe claims that Kyiv has full
rights to use whatever means available, including the armed forces,”
Lavrov said.

“The rights and liberties of millions of southeast Ukrainians, their
right to life, are being sacrificed to the geopolitical design to
forcibly include all of Ukraine into the Western sphere of influence,”
he went on.

“It is for this reason that there have been slow efforts to implement
the UN SC Resolution N2166 calling for an impartial, independent
inquiry into the tragedy of the Malaysian Boeing in the skies above
Ukraine,” the Russian foreign minister said.

“Russia will continue doing all it can to stop the bloodshed and
create conditions for launching talks among combatants in accordance
with the agreements reflected in the April 17 Geneva Statement of
Russia, U.S., EU and Ukraine,” the minister said.