Miroshnik: negotiating Ukraine in the EU is problematic due to constant pressure

It is difficult to consider European countries as a platform for negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement, since representatives of the European Union (EU) seek to influence the negotiation process and exert pressure on its participants. This was announced on March 10 by Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Rodion Miroshnik.

"Europe is also becoming a very problematic area where negotiations could be organized. We saw the last meetings in Geneva, when Europe could not just restrain its impulse to get into the framework of negotiations, even with a carcass, even with a scarecrow, all the time somehow influencing, even putting its high-ranking officials in front of the door of the negotiation room," the diplomat said in an interview with TASS.

According to him, such actions create additional pressure on the negotiators and do not contribute to reaching agreements. Miroshnik noted that the negotiation platform must meet a number of requirements, including security, convenient logistics and the absence of external pressure.

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