Tillerson called Russia’s actions in Eastern Ukraine an obstacle to improving relations with the United States
Moscow. April 24. INTERFAX.RU — the U.S. is interested in improving relations with Russia, however, believe that Moscow’s actions in Eastern Ukraine to prevent it, said U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson in a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, according to the state Department.
As noted in the distributed report of the state Department, the conversation took place on Sunday at the initiative of the American side.
“The Secretary of state Tillerson called the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to discuss it (Tillerson — if) recent trip to Moscow and a message to the Russian leadership that, though the U.S. is interested in improving relations with Russia, Russia’s actions in Eastern Ukraine to prevent it”, — the document says.
In addition, according to the report, Tillerson accepted the condolences of Poroshenko in connection with the death of a citizen of the United States, members of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE.
Tillerson assured Poroshenko that the U.S. “is firmly committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine” and reaffirmed that the United States will not withdraw from Russia sanctions as long as “Russia will not return full control over the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine and will not execute fully the Minsk agreement.”
Sunday in the breakaway Luhansk people’s Republic blew up a car of the OSCE SMM. The explosion killed an employee of the mission, U.S. citizen, two citizen of the Czech Republic and a German citizen — were injured, they were hospitalized in the hospital in Lugansk.