Vladislav Surkov
The Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and special envoy of the US state Department in Ukraine Kurt Volker will hold its next meeting in early October. About this newspaper “Kommersant” said former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft.
The diplomat also touched upon the issue of deployment of peacekeepers in the Donbass. “The UN peacekeeping force should have a broad mandate that would allow them to operate in all conflict-affected areas, including the possibility of international control of the Ukrainian side of the border between Ukraine and Russia in order to avoid deepening or institutionalizing the dividing lines in Ukraine”, — he said.
“We believe it is important to try to come to an understanding on the question of the mandate of a possible peacekeeping mission. But those criteria I mentioned are very important and they are key in the decision because we believe that any such operation should be primarily to facilitate the implementation of the Minsk agreements,” — said Tefft, and said that Washington would discuss the issue with the Ukrainian authorities, as well as other countries, including Russia.
25 Sep portal “Вести.Ru” I published an entry talking Volcker with the pranker Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vova), who spoke on behalf of the Secretary of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov. From the conversation follows that a meeting of the Walker and Surkov may pass on October 7 in Belgrade.
The first meeting of Surkov and Volker held on August 21 in a closed to the media. It was announced on 19 August. Then it was noted that Volker will discuss with the representative of the Russian authorities ‘ relations between Moscow and Kiev. The name of the representative of Russia was not mentioned.
Moscow and Washington in early July, agreed to create a communication channel for settlement of the situation in Ukraine. It was made after the talks of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his us counterpart Donald trump. Then US Secretary of state Rex Tillerson was appointed special representative for Ukraine, the former Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker.