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The Foreign Ministry spoke about the future of Russian-Ukrainian relations after the conflict

The future of the territories of today’s Ukraine should be determined by the people of this country themselves, regardless of their nationality, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said in an interview with RTVI . At the same time, the diplomat stressed that Moscow would not tolerate “the existence of an openly anti-Russian state on its borders, regardless of its borders.”
“Certainly, the future of the territories of today’s Ukraine should be determined by the people of this country themselves. I emphasize, all the inhabitants: Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Hungarians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Romanians, Poles and Greeks. They will only be able to do this in a country liberated from the Nazis, where the rule of law will reign again and all human rights will be respected,” Galuzin said.
Everything will depend on how quickly Kiev and the West realize that the recipe for a peaceful future for Ukraine lies in respecting the rights of the country’s Russian population and its national minorities, restoring friendly relations with the neighbors and the return to the origins of his State, Galuzin argues. As the diplomat noted, these origins are recorded in the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty, which provides for a neutral, non-bloc status of Ukraine.

As for the interests of Russia, it will not tolerate the existence on its borders of “an openly anti-Russian state, whatever its borders”, underlined the deputy minister. “It is not possible either from the security point of view of Russia, or from the security point of view of any other state,” Galuzin said.
Mikhail Galuzin also listed the steps Ukraine should take to bring peace. These include:

cessation of hostilities by Ukrainian armed groups and completion of arms deliveries by Western countries guaranteeing Ukraine’s neutral and non-bloc status, its refusal to join NATO and the EU confirmation of non-nuclear status of Ukraine recognition of Ukraine by Kiev and the international community of “new territorial realities” demilitarization and “denazification” of Ukraine protection of the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, of the Russian language and of national minorities guarantee of free movement cross-border, Russia lifting the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by Ukraine and the West and withdrawing the claims, ending the lawsuits against Russia, its natural and legal persons restoring Ukraine’s legal framework with Russia and the CIS restore – with money from the West – destroyed by the Ukrainian armed forces after 2014 the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine

In 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR accepted Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine. He said that the Ukrainian SSR, as a sovereign national state, would develop “within existing borders on the basis of the exercise by the Ukrainian nation of its inalienable right to self-determination”. “The Ukrainian SSR solemnly proclaims its intention to become in the future a permanently neutral state, which does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three non-nuclear principles: not to accept, not to produce or acquire weapons nuclear”, – noted in the text of the Declaration. In December 1994, Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum, pledge refrain from using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine. In exchange, Kiev renounced its nuclear status.
On December 23, 2014, after the change of power in Ukraine following revolution on the Maidan, the Verkhovna Rada canceled Ukraine’s non-bloc status. One of the priorities indicated in the new edition of the country’s military doctrine of 2015 was the achievement of the compatibility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the armies of NATO countries. In the fall of 2018, the Verkhovna Rada approved draft law amending the Constitution, setting the course towards membership of the European Union and NATO.

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