Brussels welcomes the establishment of direct dialogue between Kyiv and Moscow on the settlement of the situation in Crimea, as Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk stated on Tuesday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
“I welcome the direct dialogue established between Moscow and Kyiv,”
he said at a press conference after a European Commission meeting in
Brussels on Wednesday.
In addition, he said he expected no one would oppose a deployment of international observers to Crimea.
“The situation in Crimea needs to be handled through political
dialogue in the framework of the Ukrainian constitution and respecting
the rights of all Ukrainian citizens and communities,” Barroso said.
He reiterated that it was for the Ukrainian people to decide on their own future.
“This means their freedom and security must be guaranteed, and that
the territorial integrity has to be respected,” Barroso said.
As reported, Yatseniuk on Tuesday announced the beginning of consultations between Ukrainian and Russian ministers.
“Consultations have begun at the level of ministers, members of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Russia. It is necessary to say that
now they are quite slow, but the first steps have been taken,” Yatseniuk
said.
