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FM: Kiev authorities should be given time to fulfil Geneva statement

The OSCE observer mission will keep acting according to those statements and ideas which were adopted in Geneva yesterday,” the Russian deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov says
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov ITAR-TASS/Anton Novoderezhkin
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov
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MOSCOW, April 18. /ITAR-TASS/. Current Kiev authorities should be given some time to fulfil the April 17 Geneva statement, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told ITAR-TASS on Friday.

“But it is still early to say (anything in concrete) as the Geneva statement has just been adopted, some time should be given, it is needed to wait and see how it will be working,” Gatilov said.

Russian diplomat noted that “It is already working there” in reply to a question when the special monitoring mission of the Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe (OSCE) would start working in Ukraine the high-ranking.  “The OSCE observer mission will keep acting according to those statements and ideas which were adopted in Geneva yesterday,” the Russian deputy foreign minister added.