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Lavrov meets Ukrainian acting foreign minister over Ukrainian crisis

Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2014

“It seems to me that John Kerry has at least has displayed the understanding of the need to ‘push’ the fulfillment of the arrangement that were laid down in the February 21 agreement,” the minister added.
“It would be perhaps right if this really happens and those who currently head the Verkhovna Rada and who formed the cabinet would pay the most serious attention to this. Meanwhile, far from all the things that had been agreed upon have been fulfilled: illegal armed groups have not been disarmed, all seized buildings have not been vacated and squares have not been fully unblocked.”

Voice of Russia

25th March, 2014

Ukraine was in the focus of discussion at the nuclear security summit in The Hague on Monday. The situation in the country and Russia’s actions regarding Crimea were considered, in particular, at meetings of G7 leaders and talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with US Secretary of State John Kerry. The Russian minister also held the first meeting with Ukrainian Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Deshchytsia.

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