It is the government and parliamentary opposition of Ukraine that must decide who to ask to be the possible mediator in the current Ukrainian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted on Wednesday.
“We will support any form of external assistance in crisis settlement
efforts by the current authorities in Ukraine within the Ukrainian
constitutional framework. But it is up to the authorities and
opposition, which represents a certain part of the population in parliament, to make decisions,” Lavrov told a news conference in
Kuwait City.
“We don’t want to be as intrusive as our Western partners are trying
to be, nor do we advise anyone else to be. All it does is to hamper
dialogue,” Lavrov said.
