Putin will hold a meeting with a delegation of global " elders "
The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will meet on Wednesday, the commissioners of the "Group of elders" - an informal Association of prominent political and public figures, who held before senior positions in their own countries and international organizations.
The group of "elders" was created in 2007 at the initiative of Nelson Mandela, it consists of 12 independent persons international level. In the process of a three-day visit to the Russian Federation six members of the Group have plans to discuss a number of pressing foreign policy issues, including the middle East, the battle against crime and UN reform, and to know the opinion of the interviewees on these and other topics. This is the 1st visit of the organization in Russian Federation.
The delegation is headed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Besides him, was composed of ex-President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, former foreign Minister of Algeria Lakhdar Brahimi, former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, former presidents of the United States and Mexico Jimmy Carter and Ernesto Zedillo.
On Tuesday, the delegation of "elders" met with the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has made the initiative to discuss the situation in different regions of the world and Russian evaluation on this.
Last year was one of the most difficult for Russian foreign policy. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US imposed punishment. In response, Russia restricted imports of food items from countries that have entered against her punishment.
Ukrainian Authorities and Western countries many times accused the Russian Federation of interfering In Ukraine's internal Affairs. Moscow has stated many times that completely uninvolved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine, does not supply the militia military equipment and ammunition, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The next meeting of the contact Group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire.
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