OSCE Chairman and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau will visit Moscow next week. This was announced on Friday, February 11, by the press service of the organization.
“The OSCE Chairman-in-Office will visit Moscow next week,” the statement said.
Rau completed his visit to Ukraine on the same day. Following the results of his trip, the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry expressed support for the contact group and the OSCE mission in the country. He also added that the Minsk agreements on Ukraine must be fully implemented.
“OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Polish Foreign Minister Zbiniew Rau completed his visit to Ukraine today. He stressed the importance of taking concrete measures to resolve the crisis in and around this country in accordance with both international law and OSCE principles and commitments.
Earlier, on February 10, negotiations of the Normandy Four represented by representatives of Russia, Germany, Ukraine and France were held in Berlin and lasted more than 8.5 hours. This round of diplomatic solutions to the Ukrainian crisis was another attempt by the parties to reach an agreement.
At a briefing after the meeting, Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, said that the negotiations between the representatives of the leaders of the Normandy Four had been fruitless.
The United States and a number of European countries have recently expressed concern over the alleged increase in Russia’s “aggressive actions” against Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone, and such statements are used as an excuse to place as much NATO military equipment as possible near the borders of the Russian Federation.
On January 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was not going to start a war with Ukraine, and Western countries and the United States were “hysterically” developing the topic of a threat to Ukraine from the Russian Federation instead of forcing Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreements.
Source: IZ
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