Moscow (Russia): Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Western nations of intentionally attempting to dam peace negotiations with Ukraine. Talking to TASS (a Russia’s state-owned information company) on Sunday, he warned that any makes an attempt to derail the diplomatic course of would in the end fail.
He stated the diplomatic initiative, initially launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump on the Alaska Summit, had been productive. He added that efforts to impede the negotiations can be “thwarted”.
“They’re merely searching for a pretext to stop negotiations, and so they need this to occur by no fault of theirs, no fault of (Vladimir) Zelensky, who can be being cussed, placing ahead some situations, demanding a right away assembly with Putin, it doesn’t matter what. [This is] an try to disrupt the method principally laid down by presidents Putin and Trump, which was fairly fruitful, and we hope that these makes an attempt will probably be thwarted,” he informed All-Russia State Tv and Radio Broadcasting Firm journalist Pavel Zarubin, as reported by TASS.
Lavrov recalled that Putin had described the Alaska Summit as “fruitful” and emphasised the necessity to “flip the web page” and resume cooperation between Russia and the USA.
Following the summit on August 15, follow-up conferences on Ukraine had been held in Washington on August 19. These discussions centered on the outcomes of the summit, Trump’s interactions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders and potential post-war safety ensures for Ukraine.
Lavrov additionally criticised Zelensky for attempting to “shift the main focus” away from home points in Ukraine, notably the therapy of the Russian language and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Russian Overseas Minister argued that Ukraine’s legal guidelines banning the Russian language and suppressing the canonical Church constituted “gross violations of the UN Constitution”.
He said that repealing these legal guidelines ought to be step one towards resolving the battle, no matter Zelensky’s stance.
“He stated that Russian won’t be the state language. Nevertheless, typically talking, nobody is especially insisting on this. Step one, which doesn’t rely on any needs of Zelensky or anybody else, is the repeal of all legal guidelines that banned the Russian language and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in gross violation of the UN Constitution. For this reason he’s attempting to shift the main focus of the issue, which he’ll fail to do,” Lavrov informed TASS.
In line with the information company, Zelensky has lately clarified that granting Russian the standing of a state language just isn’t a part of any proposed settlement with Moscow.