Ukraine was among the items on the agenda for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Qatar yesterday, where he had meetings with Qatar Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Among other things, Lavrov charged that Britain and France are aiming at fanning the flames of the conflict further.
“We maintain that the most effective contribution from those genuinely seeking to resolve the conflict lies in acknowledging its root causes, Lavrov said during a meeting with reporters afterwards. “As U.S. President Donald Trump recently stated in his addresses, NATO’s expansion and its attempt to absorb Ukraine into the alliance represent the gravest errors of the Joe Biden administration and key catalysts for this conflict.”
Later, a reporter asked Lavrov about the comments made in Washington by French President Emmanuel Macron when he said after his meeting with President Donald Trump, that they “agreed on the need to deploy European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine after the end of the conflict.”