Moscow – The Geneva format of talks on resolving the Ukraine crisis without representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR) is a closed chapter, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“Attempts to question the relevance of the Minsk documents, the protocol and the memorandum, are being made by those who would like to replay this situation and return this whole process to some format in which the DPR and LPR won’t be represented. I see this design in the insistent statements being made, in particular, by [Ukrainian Prime Minister] Arseniy Yatseniuk and his team that all these negotiations should be returned to the Geneva format. The Geneva format is a closed chapter,” Lavrov said during a regular ‘government hour’ hearings at the State Duma on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
The Geneva format was useful “when there was no direct dialogue between Kyiv and the southeast,” Lavrov said. “Now this dialogue has been established. It would be a crime to destroy it,” he said.
