Russian Foreign Ministry does not rule out possible meeting with Ukrainian diplomats ahead of April 4 session
MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya has not ruled out possible contacts with Ukrainian diplomats in the run-up to an April 4 session of the CIS Foreign Ministers' Council.
"A regular session of the CIS Foreign Ministers' Council will be held in Moscow on April 4. I do not rule out that in some form we may meet with our CIS partners prior to that [the session], including Ukrainians," Nebenzya told reporters on Thursday.
Ukrainian partners' proposal to hold an emergency session of the CIS Foreign Ministers' Council in Kyiv on March 7 is unfeasible, the deputy foreign minister said.
"It is technically impossible for all of us to meet up tomorrow because our foreign minister and other CIS ministers have prior engagements that make this date unfeasible. But we are not rejecting this dialogue," he said.
Ukraine has not refused to hold the CIS chairmanship either, Nebenzya said, referring to Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko.
"We have already discussed Ukraine's chairmanship of the CIS. It has not rejected it, and has confirmed that it will hold this post," Nebenzya said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Information Policy Department said earlier that Ukraine had proposed holding an emergency session of the CIS Foreign Ministers' Council in Kyiv in order to discuss the situation in the capital and the rest of the country.
