MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. An achievement of an agreement with Kiev, and its implementation can promptly stop the current events in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov believes.
"It is the signing of the document, clear negotiation of all parameters, and their implementation can stop what is happening [in Ukraine] very fast," the spokesman told journalists Thursday.
"Our delegation exerts huge efforts, and displays much higher readiness to hold talks in emergency mode than our Ukrainian counterparts," Peskov said. "Our terms are clear as day, they were formulated and conveyed to the Ukrainian negotiators," the spokesman said.
He pointed out a feature of Ukrainian negotiation style.
"We know that the Ukrainian style of negotiation is very, very relaxed; we are well acquainted with it and we remember it well from our anticipation of Ukraine’s fulfillment of obligations under the Minsk Package of Measures. Back then, things also progressed in a very relaxed fashion, and it eventually became one reason of the impasse that everything is at now," Peskov stated.
"We would very much like to hope that this style will not be applied during these negotiations," Peskov admitted. "We actually expect an energetic participation [of the Ukrainian side]," he noted.
The first round of Russian-Ukrainian talks took place on February 28 in Belarus. Later, the sides met on March 3 and March 7, also in Belarus. On March 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba met in Turkey’s Antalya. Currently, the negotiations proceed daily via online mode.