Russia is ready for talks on Ukraine that would secure its legitimate interests, but not at the expense of the interests of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an event dedicated to Diplomats’ Day, Report informs via TASS.
“As President Vladimir Putin has said many times, Russia is ready for negotiations, in the course of which our legitimate national interests should be ensured,” he said, according to his speech posted to the Russian Foreign Ministry website. “Not at the expense of the interests of others, but in the context of an agreement on a comprehensive security system within which no one will feel offended.”
“The Ukrainian crisis has deep root causes. We never tire of talking about them; we consistently demand their elimination and we will make sure we achieve results. They are, first of all, the creation of threats to Russia’s security through the expansion of NATO to the east and the policy of the Kyiv regime, which came to power through an anti-constitutional coup, to exterminate all things Russian: language, culture, media and canonical Orthodoxy,” he said. “Only the complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the conflict can open the way to ending it.”
