Ukraine is ready to transparent negotiations with the Russian Federation and the reconstruction of a new type of relationship

Ukraine is ready to transparent negotiations with Russia and the reconstruction of a new type of relations between Ukraine and Russia, in which Russia recognizes the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the PM said from the parliamentary rostrum on Tuesday, March 11.

The Prime Minister has said that today he departs for the U.S. in order to hold a series of high-level meetings, including one with U.S. President Barack Obama. "The USA is a guarantor country that signed the Budapest Memorandum. Both the USA and the entire Western world, very clearly and firmly maintain the territorial integrity and inviolability of the Ukrainian state and urge Russia, as a member of the Budapest Memorandum, to comply immediately with international treaties and agreements, to stop the military aggression and sit down at the table of negotiations. "

"On behalf of the Ukrainian Government I declare that Ukraine is ready to transparent negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and to rebuild a new type of relations between Ukraine and Russia," the PM emphasized.

A. Yatseniuk underlined that this new type of relationship should provide “Russia to recognize the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, recognize Ukraine's course towards European integration, where we in bilateral relations not only sign obligations, but also perform them, and where Russia ceases to capture through military aggression the territory of the independent sovereign state, which it used to call the “brotherly nation””.