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PARIS - The Ukrainian authorities are not active enough in investigating the tragedies that have taken place in their country over the past months, and there is the impression they have something to conceal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

“International organizations, primarily the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and the UN human rights institutions, should take the initiative and assume more responsibility in bringing these investigations to an end, because the Ukrainian authorities are obviously not doing enough,” Lavrov said in summing up outcomes of his negotiations with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris on Oct. 14.

“I wouldn’t like to suspect anyone of anything, but there is the impression that there is something to conceal, and international institutions are obliged not to allow this,” he added.