Russian senate speaker Valentina Matviyenko has urged the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments to launch negotiations as soon as possible.
“Let’s do it today, right now, at the G20 parliamentary platform, let’s come to the negotiating table: the parliament of Russia and the parliament of Ukraine. Let’s try to understand each other, to find some agreements,” she said during the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit in Indonesia.
According to her, Russia has repeatedly offered to hold talks on the regulation of the “domestic Ukrainian crisis”, however, after several meetings in Istanbul, Ukraine abandoned the agreements “under external control”.
“We would like to reiterate that we are for negotiations, for dialogue, we support a peaceful political solution to this crisis. Let’s find an agreement and come to the negotiating table,” Matviyenko said.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the decision of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, which introduced a ban on negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
