The General
Assembly could use a “Uniting for Peace” provision which allows the body
to hold an emergency session on Ukraine. (File photo: Reuters)
“We are
open to an honest, equal and objective dialogue with our foreign
partners to find a way to help all of Ukraine come out of the crisis,”
Lavrov said at a televised news conference in Moscow, in a clear
reference to the West.
Tensions
between Moscow and the West have surged in recent days as pro-Moscow
forces took over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which then
announced plans to hold a referendum on becoming part of Russia.
Lavrov
said the Ukrainian government was taking orders from extremists and
denied Moscow had any direct role in the crisis in Crimea.
“The
interim government... is not independent. It depends, unfortunately, on
radical nationalists who carried out an armed coup,” Lavrov said.
Meanwhile,
Ukraine’s acting foreign minister said his country would not give up
Crimea and would do all in its power to resolve the crisis over the
Black Sea peninsula peacefully, according to Reuters news agency.
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