Lavrov: No serious proposals for settlement in Ukraine have been received yet
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that no serious proposals for a settlement in Ukraine have yet been received.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry made this statement on October 11 at a press conference following his participation in the 19th East Asia Summit.
The minister's words are quoted by TASS .
What Lavrov said about the proposals for a settlement in Ukraine
The head of Russian diplomacy stated that Moscow hears statements about the need for a settlement in Ukraine, but has not yet found anything serious in them.
Commenting on the words of the Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar that Kyiv hopes to hold a second peace summit before the end of the year, Lavrov said that he does not follow the information periodically voiced by Ukrainian representatives at various levels.
We are not interested in this, added the head of the Russian diplomatic mission.
According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Moscow's position very clearly on June 14 in a speech at the Foreign Ministry.
This position is being consistently implemented in practice, and we will see this through to the end, the minister summed up.
The first peace summit on Ukraine took place on June 15-16 in Switzerland. Russia was not invited to the event, and China did not participate. The final communiqué was not supported by any of the BRICS countries.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the summit had been a complete fiasco. According to her, such gatherings cannot become the basis for lasting peace.
On June 14, Putin, in his speech at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, named the conditions for resolving the conflict. Among them are Ukraine's refusal to join the North Atlantic Alliance, Ukraine's non-nuclear and non-aligned status, the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbass and Novorossiya, ensuring the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine, and the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions. Kyiv rejected this peace plan.
After the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region, Putin declared the pointlessness of negotiations with a government that attacks civilians.
Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov later said that Russia's peace proposals, voiced earlier by its president, had not been cancelled, but that Moscow would not talk to Kiev at this stage.
