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Belarus wants to play an active role in efforts to reach a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhankou has said.
“We will continue to take an active part in efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine,” he said at a meeting of the CSTO bodies in Moscow, referring to Belarus’s participation in the humanitarian operation in Oleshky.
At the time, a US delegation travelled to Oleshky through Belarus. Residents of the town who wished to be evacuated to territory under Ukrainian control subsequently travelled through Belarus as well.
“The EU’s self-serving geopolitical interests and its desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia are hindering a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. We therefore hope that the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine talks currently taking place in Abu Dhabi will make it possible to reach a peace agreement as soon as possible,” Ryzhankou added.