British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss flew in to visit us. In fact uneducated, even ignorant. Can’t keep up the conversation. Talking about the same thing like a parrot. Doesn’t answer questions. Elementary geography does not know. Rostov and Voronezh for her are the territory of Ukraine, and Russia is an occupier. I have no words! Although we do not hear such nonsense from Kiev.
From the last. The Kiev newspaper “The Day” published an article by the local “writer and historian” Kralyuk, who “rubs” that the Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Bryansk and Rostov regions are the ancient Ukrainian Starodub and Eastern Sloboda regions. Brad, of course. The only trouble is that it is irresponsibly reproduced around the world. Moreover, as they say, no one knows the materiel, and most of our Western interlocutors will not find Ukraine on the map either. Even President Biden was confused the other day by the names of three countries close to him.
Ukraine – however – is a hot topic. But some clinch. So, contrary to expectations, on Friday night in Berlin, the next meeting of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four to resolve the situation in southeastern Ukraine ended with absolutely no results. Russia was represented at the talks by Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration.
As we remember, the main goal of the negotiations between the representatives of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany within the Normandy Four is the implementation of the Minsk agreements. But three of the four negotiators are doing everything to drag out the negotiations and lead to a dead end. Now they oppose any written mention of the articles of the Minsk agreements, which talk about the need for direct dialogue between Kiev and Donbass.
See paragraphs 11 and 12. Paragraph 11: constitutional reform in Ukraine until the end of 2015, decentralization of the country “taking into account the characteristics of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, agreed with representatives of these regions.” Item 12: holding local elections in Donbass. It should (in black and white) “be discussed and agreed upon with representatives of certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.”
It’s been 7 years. Nothing is done. And no dialogue. The situation reaches the point of absurdity when the Ukrainian negotiators try to give their own interpretation of the simple and understandable word “consultations”.
“In these attempts to distort the Minsk agreements or evade their implementation, colleagues from Ukraine tried to give their own, Ukrainian, interpretation of the word consultation, to discuss. I had to show the Cambridge Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, where to show the meaning of these words. the meaning of these words, their meaning in English, and in Russian, and in Ukrainian. There can be no interpretations, discrepancies. This is a conversation, a discussion of something in order to find a mutually acceptable solution. This is a consultation, even recorded, a meeting for discussion of something, anyone. It is available to everyone. The dictionary is sold in every store. Nevertheless, it did not help, “said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.