According to Lavrov,
Western partners are beginning to realize that it is "impossible" to
negotiate with Pyotr Poroshenko on Minsk Agreements.
DVORIKI VILLAGE
/Vladimir Region/, July 30. /TASS/. Leaders of Western countries express
unflattering things to the current Ukrainian leaders when talking with them
behind closed doors, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday
addressing the participants in the Territory of Meanings National Educational
Youth Forum on Monday.
"When our
Western, at least European, counterparts communicate with the leaders of
today’s Ukraine behind closed doors, they tell them some quite unflattering
things and seek to have some kind of reaction," the minister said.
According to Lavrov,
representatives of Western countries are beginning to realize that the current
Ukrainian regime is unable to comply with the agreements on the entire range of
internal and foreign policy issues reached earlier. "Western partners
realize that [Ukrainian President Pyotr] Poroshenko is impossible to negotiate
with in terms of any provision of the Minsk agreements. They realize that he
cannot control radical nationalists," the Russian foreign minister said.
"Over this period
of time, the West has become certain that it is impossible to negotiate with
Poroshenko as far as the reforms required by the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) are concerned."
"We have spoken
with our Western counterparts frankly many times, and I have the impression
that most of them are perfectly aware of what is going on," Lavrov went on
to say. "Poroshenko was declared 'a torchbearer of democracy,' while his
regime was branded as ‘exemplary,’ because he was seeking to embrace the ‘contemporary,
Western values.’ The fact that he was part of the project to contain Russia,
that was not declared openly but, of course, was implied, played a key
role."
"However, having
said that this is ‘a victory of democracy,’ having said that the Minsk accords
should be implemented by Russia, above all, and, having invested such huge
political and financial capital in the Ukrainian authorities, the West believes
it cannot say it was mistaken without losing face and that it is necessary to
exert pressure, first and foremost, on Kiev. I don’t know to what extent these
misinterpreted prestige considerations, misinterpreted loss of reputation will
dominate," Lavrov concluded.
Source: ITAR-TASS
31-07-2018
