Moscow has accused Washington and Kyiv of the unwillingness to disclose the OSCE roadmap targeting a dialogue between Kyiv and Ukrainian regions, including the southeast.
“It is a pity that somebody in Washington and Kyiv is against the involvement of regions in the dialogue and this is why the roadmap drawn up by the OSCE chair [Swiss President Didier Burkhalter] is not being disclosed, by the way, in spite of our readiness. This is another piece of evidence that Kyiv has yet to realize the need to talk to its own people,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on May 12.
Lavrov said he had heard Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deschytsia and White House spokesman Jay Carney saying that it was necessary to continue negotiations on Ukraine in the quadripartite format including the United States, the European Union, Russia and Kyiv.
