The Kremlin spokesman avoided answering the
question who in that case might serve as a mediator between Moscow and Kiev.
MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. The Kremlin believes that in case of Kiev’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with Moscow the interests of people in both countries will be harmed.
"If
such a decision (to sever diplomatic relations with Russia) is made (by
Ukraine) this time, it will complicate the situation and, what is still more
important, it will harm the interests of people in Ukraine and Russia,"
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday.
He acknowledged that such a decision was certainly "Ukraine’s sovereign affair," but at the same time recalled that Kiev in recent years "made quite a few steps that had the most negative effects on settling the conflict in the southeast of the country."
Peskov
avoided answering the question who in that case might serve as a mediator
between Moscow and Kiev, adding that it would be a "hypothetical
discussion."
Earlier,
some mass media said the bill on the reintegration of Donbass the Ukrainian
parliament was considering had been complemented by an amendment on the
severing of diplomatic relations with Russia. However, the chief of the
parliamentary committee on security said that the Verkhovna Rada had no powers
to terminate diplomatic relations with other countries and no such amendments
to the bill on the reintegration of Donbass had been introduced. Parliament
member Ivan Vinnik, the rumored author of the amendments, denied such claims in
an interview to the television channel 112.Ukraine. Vinnik said that such an
amendment could not have been made at least because the deadline for making
such proposals had expired.
Source: ITAR-TASS 08-11-2017
