Many in EU support trilateral discussion regarding Ukraine - Lavrov
MOSCOW. Dec 16 (Interfax) - Many European Union members support the trilateral format of resolving the issues regarding Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"What was said today confirmed that many EU countries think that for instance the situation with Ukraine should be discussed trilaterally," Lavrov told reporters in Brussels following the meeting with EU foreign ministers.
The EU and Russia are the biggest trade partners of Ukraine, Lavrov said.
"It will be simply logical, before proposing quite obtrusively some schemes of further cooperation of Ukraine with the EU in this case, to sit and look what consequences these or those topics will have for all the participants of this process, taking into account huge volume of trade, economic and investment ties, not to mention humanitarian ties between all these countries," Lavrov said.
"Such trilateral cooperation will be only justified," the minister said.
"Despite what we have heard from certain European Commission
functionaries, it seemed to me today that members-states treat with understanding the necessity of such honest conversation, not attempts to resolve these issue behind somebody's back," Lavrov said.
