MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) – Russia plans to submit to the UN Security Council a draft resolution demanding to end violence and start dialogue in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
“We want the Security Council to demand that civilians are allowed to leave conflict zones unimpeded and that humanitarian assistance is delivered to these zones,” Lavrov said.
The resolution was of purely humanitarian nature and will also contain measures needed to implement the Geneva communique and the OSCE roadmap on Ukraine.
The first round of the Geneva talks took place in April 17 when top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, the EU and the US agreed on a number of conditions that urged the coup-imposed regime and its opposition in Ukraine to refrain from violence, extremism and provocations, to disarm militants and launch a national dialogue on constitutional reform.
In May OSCE Chairman and Swiss President Didier Burkhalter proposed a roadmap providing for concrete steps necessary to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, including reducing violence, disarmament as well as facilitating national dialogue and elections. It also stipulates a series of high-level roundtable discussions led by the OSCE aimed to bring all sides of the Ukrainian conflict to the negotiating table.
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the roadmap when meeting Burkhalter.
