"Firstly, last year’s logic ‘we don’t agree with Russia and refuse to talk’ changed to at least ‘we don’t agree, but we must talk’. Secondly, the EU, unlike the US, rules out the possibility of supplying weapons to Ukraine. Consequently, if we ignore the public rhetoric, the Europeans in fact back Moscow’s political settlement plan rather than Kiev’s military scenario. Thirdly, we received news about continuing contacts between the leaders of Russia, Germany and France throughout the course of the Munich Conference. These contacts prove not on words, but in actions, that this new approach has no alternative. We will hope for the result," Kosachev wrote.
Meetings with European and US parliamentarians on the sidelines of the Munich Conference give a chance for dialogue in such a format, Kosachev said. "I am convinced that the parliamentarian channel may be a very effective means in the Russian-US and Russian-European discussion of the Ukrainian crisis and other pressing issues [first of all, Iran and Syria]," he added.
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