MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s statements on giving up Ukraine’s non-aligned status, expelling Russia from the UN Security Council and similar statements are made as part of rhetoric by ‘a party of war’ in Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
Lavrov also reminded about the blockade of Ukraine's eastern regions, saying that too is a part of the party of war rhetoric.
"It is regretful because such a party exists and exactly from ranks of that ‘party of war’ calls are made to repeat in Ukraine's south-east an operation which was carried out in Serbian Krajina, when the issue was settled by force. All this was not only accepted, our Western partners welcomed this,” Lavrov said.
“I proceed from the assumption that the Ukrainian president consistently - and he repeated this again recently - calls for exclusively peaceful settlement of all issues related with the current situation in the country’s south-east,” the minister added.