MOSCOW, 15 March 2022, (TON): Moscow appreciates Doha’s desire to promote a settlement in this area. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following talks with Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani.

He said “we had useful and meaningful talks with my Qatari colleague and friend Abdel Rahman Al Thani.”

For obvious reasons, much attention was paid to the Ukrainian theme.

They talked about how the current crisis has been brewing for many years with the connivance of Western colleagues who took patronage over the Kiev regime.

We informed how a special military operation is currently being carried out in the interests of protecting the inhabitants of Donbass from a direct military threat, how we are achieving a solution to the issues of demilitarization, denazification, including through negotiations. They were initiated a week ago and continue on the Belarusian site and via videoconferencing.

He spoke about my meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine D.I.Kuleba on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomatic Forum in Turkey.

We talked about the attention Russian representatives pay to solving humanitarian issues, creating corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the combat zone and delivering emergency humanitarian aid from Russia to the population of the relevant regions of Ukraine.