Lavrov insists that a peace agreement requires Ukraine to renounce its NATO aspirations

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovhas insisted this Saturday that a peace agreement with Ukraine It inevitably goes through kyiv’s renunciation of its aspirations to join NATO, the declaration of security guarantees for Russia and the creation of a legislative framework related to the consolidation of the Russian language and media in the country.

“I hope that our operation”as referred Lavrov to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “end with the signing of documents on the security problems, the neutral status of Ukraine and, of course, the consolidation into a standard of the current legislative framework regarding the Russian language, Russian education and the Russian media”, He has made known in statements collected by TASS.

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The minister repeats here complaints expressed this week, when he denounced Kyiv for violating the principles of the Ukrainian Constitution. “They have adopted a huge number of unconstitutional laws that blatantly discriminate against the Russian language, spoken in many parts of the country,” made it known in an interview last Thursday to the RBC channel.

Going back to your comments from this Saturday, Lavrov explained that, although the talks with Ukraine have improved in recent days, kyiv behaves as if “United States was taking him by the hand” to ensure his denial of the Russian demands put forward by Lavrov, which the minister described as “absolutely minimum requirements.

In this sense, Lavrov has also described the Western powers as “unreliable guarantors” of a solution to the crisis by guiding precisely this “anti-russian course of kyiv and displaying his disdain for international law.

“Legal obligations are not something that our Western colleagues respect these days. They have already thrown overboard the presumption of innocence, sacred private property and many other ‘pillars’ on which ‘liberal values’ have been based for years”, Lavrov has made known.

In fact, the Russian minister has been of the opinion that this “contempt” will result in even stronger cooperation between Russia and China, its great economic ally, which has expressed in recent weeks its reservation when it comes to explicitly supporting the Russian invasion.

“I think that this cooperation will be strengthened, because at a time when the West is simply seriously undermining all the foundations on which the international system is based, we must think about how the two great powers can continue in this world.”, declared Lavrov.

The head of Russian diplomacy has ended by assuring that Russia remains open to cooperation with the West but will not take the initiative.

“We remain open to cooperate with any country, including Western states, although under current conditions, when the West behaved in this way, we will not take any initiative”he said referring to the sanctions imposed after Russia will launch its military operation in Ukraine.

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Source: Elcomercio

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