Russian Foreign Minister Expresses Willingness to Start Negotiations About Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the UN July, 17, 2024 Photo: @arabnews
July 17, 2024 Hour: 7:09 pm
Lavrov also reiterated his country’s willingness to work «with any American leader the people choose».
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Wednesday in a press conference, following the debates of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), that your nation is fit for negotiations on Ukraine and on security in Europe.
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We are ready to negotiate (…). I hope that at some point a treaty on European security will be reached, and in that context the Ukrainian crisis will be resolved», said the Foreign Minister, who stressed that the ideas for the second conference on Ukraine, after the one held in Switzerland, contain unacceptable approaches to Moscow.
Lavrov also stated that Russia will have safeguards against interpretations that may be non-transparent in any future treaty related to Europe’s security, and recalled that the western nations welcomed the so-called peace plan of the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky, which is considered a form of ultimatum.
«It is necessary to stop supplying arms to Ukraine and the war will end, and we will look for a solution that forces to take into account the realities on the ground and in public life», he emphasized.
The Russian foreign minister also pointed out that some nations, including Brazil and China, have spoken in favor of a peace conference, based on principles that are acceptable to both parties.
Lavrov also reiterated his country’s willingness to work «with any American leader the American people choose».
On the genocide of Israel in the Gaza Strip, he declared that the diplomatic cover-up of Israel’s actions has directly involved Washington in the Middle East conflict and in Ukraine.
By offering a diplomatic cover-up to Israel’s actions and sending arms and ammunition, Washington, everyone understands, has become a direct accomplice to the conflict, as well as the situation in Ukraine,” Lavrov said.
He added, “Once this support ends, the bloodshed will stop. However, the United States does not want or cannot. Apparently, the important thing is not to save human lives, but the maneuvers that allow them to score more points in the electoral campaign».
In this regard, he denounced that «the current unprecedented outbreak of violence in the Middle East is largely a consequence of the well-known US policy in the region».
He also added that «it is a consequence of that diplomacy of which the American representatives have been talking to us for almost ten months about the effectiveness, demanding that we reduce the work in the platform of the UN Security Council».
Regarding the blasting of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in 2022 in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden, he said that his country will seek the truth and will remember «again in the Security Council [of the UN] that this issue did not disappear».
On the subject, an article published on the Substack platform, authored by American Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, said that military divers from the US. had placed explosives under the pipelines in June 2022, which three months later were activated by Norwegian military.
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Fuente: TASS-Sputnik
