Only personal, no business

Russia did not agree to international armed control of the territories of self -proclaimed LPR and the DPR, said the head of the Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Vesti on Saturday with Sergey Brilev on the Russia 1 TV channel. Moscow advocates strengthening the OSCE mission on the demarcation line and in places of weapons storage and agree that the observers have personal weapons.

“The conversation at the highest level ultimately revolved around the fact that it was necessary to increase the efficiency of the OSCE mission. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in order to increase, first of all, the potential of this mission on the demarcation line,” Lavrov said. “We also said that if it would help the matter, to agree that this additional group of observers will control the line of distinction and scene of the screening heavy weapons, had the right to wear personal weapons. "

However, according to the minister, the weapons of observers are rejection of many OSCE members. "The experience of such measures through the OSCE and the UN shows that very often unarmed observers are more protected than in the presence of personal weapons," Lavrov noted.

Russia also does not agree to place OSCE observers on the Russian-Ukrainian border until the special status of Donbass in the Ukrainian Constitution. “We never agreed on this,” the minister said. According to Lavrov, "Ukrainians want it constantly."

“But they were repeatedly explained that there is no amnesty, the law on the special status, which will really guarantee additional rights to these territories, until these rights within the framework of the special status are not enshrined in the Ukrainian Constitution on an ongoing basis, it is difficult to count on the fact that Donetsk and Lugansk agree to“ advance ”to fulfill the fact that under the Minsk agreements the political process should complete, and not to be its preliminary condition,” noted its preliminary condition, ”said it. Lavrov.

On May 24, the press service of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the leaders of the Norman Four countries supported the deployment of the OSCE armed mission in the Donbass. "The leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia expressed support for the deployment of the OSCE police mission in the Donbass and the start of consultations on this issue," the report said

On May 26, Lavrov said that the LPR and the DPR authorities will not go the introduction of international peacekeeping forces in the Donbass . "This is not provided for by the Minsk agreements. This will never go to this, and with the Donbass, in accordance with the Minsk agreements, it is necessary to coordinate all the steps to settle without exception," Lavrov said.

On Wednesday, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Eliseev said that Kiev is “clear records of all telephone conversations” that contain the consent of the “Norman four” for the placement of the OSCE armed police mission. “The only thing I note is that the leaders really did not discuss the details, since experts and experts should already do this in order to develop and provide relevant proposals for approval of the heads of the Norman Four countries,” Eliseev said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denies the fact of Moscow’s consent to place a militarized mission in the Donbass. “There are prevailing formats to discuss these issues. First of all, this is a contact group that will gather in Minsk, as well as the OSCE, within the framework of which the corresponding decision should be made,” said the deputy head of the department, Grigory Karasin. He noted that Russia "did not give such consent," adding that in this case "the verbose of Kyiv strategists only interferes with the case."