preložiť Gašpar and Danko met with Lavrov. Russia sees no credible partner in the West because of the breach of the agreement
The conflict in Ukraine and the supply of energy carriers to Europe were the main topics of the meeting of the Vice-Presidents of the National Council Tibor Gašpar and Andrej Danko with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.
According to Gaspar, Russia does not see a credible partner with which it could conclude an agreement on ending the conflict in Ukraine after the West violated several previous agreements.
Russia is said to have no credible partner
As Gaspar continued, Lavrov conveyed Russia's perspective on why it decided to resolve the situation in Ukraine militarily.
Among the reasons given by the Russian minister at the meeting was the undermining of the rights of the Russian minority in eastern Ukraine, including official bans on the use of their native language, Gašpar said.
However, the Russians are willing to negotiate an end to the conflict in Ukraine, according to Gašpar.
"There just has to be someone who is willing to listen to them about why they have decided to deal with this situation the way they have decided," Gaspar said, adding that Lavrov said Russia has discovered that some agreements from the past seem to have ceased to be valid.
This concerns, for example, the Minsk agreements on the conflict in Donbas, the Istanbul negotiations shortly after the start of the Russian invasion in 2022, as well as agreements from the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Predsedníčka ruskej Rady federácie Valentina Ivanovna Matvijenková, Andrej Danko a Tibor Gašpar počas prijatia na oficiálnej návšteve Ruskej federácie.
"They do not have a credible partner with whom they could conclude such an agreement," Gašpar interpreted Lavrov's position.
Lavrov accused the U.S. of attacking the pipeline
The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic warned that until the causes of the conflict in Ukraine are named, it is impossible to resolve it.
According to Danko, Lavrov spoke at the meeting about the issue of energy flows to Europe and also about what he had said earlier at a press conference in this regard. There, he accused the United States of trying to damage the TurkStream pipeline linking the European part of Turkey and Russia's Krasnodar region via the Black Sea.
According to Lavrov, the U.S. assisted Ukraine in Monday's drone attack on the pipeline's infrastructure.
The Slovak delegation was also received by the head of the Russian State Duma: