[ad_1]
KYIV. January 18. UNN. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted the proposal of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to authorize German and French specialists in the Kerch Strait, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a news conference. press conference on the results of talks with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on 18 January. UNN Referring to Fontanka
"For more than a month, Chancellor Merkel has asked President Putin to allow German specialists to travel to the Kerch Strait to to see the passage to comply with the security standards … And President Putin immediately agreed, "said Lavrov.
He adds that after a while, Merkel had asked German specialists to arrive with the French and that Putin was in agreement.
Lavrov said that Maas had handed him the proposal "which" conditions "this simple trip to some sort of a document to be agreed with Ukraine". [196459005] ALSO READ: Russia will not oblige Ukraine to abandon crossing the Kerch Strait – Poltorak
"We have honestly says if our colleagues are interested in what President Putin has promised to Chancellor Merkel, this can be done today, tomorrow, at any time.If the idea is to place all this in a kind of political procedure in which the Ukrainian side will make decisions, but we risk finding ourselves in the same situation. "Norman format" with "Steinmeier's formula", – said the Russian mini Tr.
To his part, Maas said that only the negotiations with Lavrov suggested to Germany and France to engage in steps to ensure the free passage of the Strait of Kerch and that, in this regard, Moscow could have been
Reminder, as indicated UNN, Of Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait were fired by a large caliber weapon.
Source link
