Berlin - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on July 2 reaffirmed that Russia is willing to have Ukrainian border guards and monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe posted on its border with Ukraine.
“Of course, all this would be in effect for the ceasefire period. All this will become possible only after a ceasefire is agreed and declared,” Lavrov told a news conference in Berlin after meeting with his German, French and Ukrainian counterparts in the German capital.
He thanked the other three ministers for supporting the Russian initiative.
“As soon as a ceasefire is declared, we will submit a draft resolution to the OSCE’s Permanent Council, which will authorize such a placement, such a dispatch of monitors to border crossing points, and we are grateful to our colleagues at today’s meeting for their promise to vigorously support such a decision of the OSCE Permanent Council,” Lavrov said.
