Russian Permanent Representative at the UN Security Council Vitaliy Churkin has been instructed to submit another draft resolution on Ukraine to the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on June 12.
Russia is getting “increasingly more alarmed by the lack of any
progress in the efforts toward ending violence and stopping armed
hostilities,” he said.
“We want to concentrate on the need to make sure that the Ukrainian
parties start complying with the OSCE chairperson’s roadmap, which was
compiled based on the April Geneva statement,” he said.
“This is a very important point, because, as far as we can see,
attempts are being made to depart from a balanced and just nature of the
roadmap’s principles and try to lobby some unilateral plans that won’t
take into account the southeastern Ukraine’s interests,” Lavrov said.
“These are dangerous attempts, because only equitable dialogue and
full consideration of interests of all regions of Ukraine without an
exception, including in the course of a constitutional reform, can
strengthen and stabilize Ukrainian statehood, which is in a grave crisis
now,” he said.
Russia would like to express its concern about the continued
violence, including in populated areas, which is bringing sufferings to
the civilian population and destroying the civilian infrastructure and
residential neighborhoods, Lavrov said. Even humanitarian convoys have
been attacked, he said.
Lavrov said he was particularly concerned by “reports on the use by
the Ukrainian armed forces of incendiary bombs and other banned
indiscriminate types of weapons,” adding at the same time that these
reports “need to be verified.”
The Russian minister has called on the OSCE mission having observers
deployed in the southeastern part of Ukraine to immediately verify these
allegations.
Russia will insist on bringing to an end the investigations into the
tragedies in Odesa, Mariupol, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, and also the
probes into the sniper fire on Maidan in Kyiv.
“We know that the Council of Europe is ready to join these
investigations, and we are convinced that this needs to be done,” he
said.
