Lavrov Comments on Conflicts at OSCE Ministerial council

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said while addressing the OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana on December 5, that an ?unwillingness? to engage in ?a real dialogue? with the authorities of various unrecognized republics represents the major reasons why conflicts remain unsolved.

?We are convinced that the main reason why a number of conflict situations persist in the OSCE area lies in the fact that existing agreements are ignored and an insufficient account is taken of the interests of representatives of the so-called ‘non-titular’ nationalities and the relevant autonomies, and there is an unwillingness to engage in real dialogue with them ? an approach quite unlike that taken in certain other crisis situations on our continent, where a completely different standard is applied,? Lavrov said.

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