Russian parliamentarian to speak about Ukraine at Munich conference

MOSCOW. Jan 31 (Interfax) - The chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, is planning to name those responsible for aggravating the situation in Ukraine at the Munich Security Conference.

"I shall be talking on the Ukrainian issue, including the problems involving Ukraine's geopolitical choice, prospects for the Moscow-Kyiv cooperation and who is really to blame for the political crisis and aggravating the situation in Ukraine," Slutsky told journalists on Thursday.

I shall be speaking on February 1 at the Post-Conflict Conundrum discussion which will focus mainly on the situations in Ukraine and in Georgia, he said.

Other speakers at the Munich Conference will include: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, Romanian President Traian Basescu, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, and political analyst Zbigniew Brzezinski. Verkhovna Rada deputies Vitali Klitschko and Petro Poroshenko have also been invited to take part in the discussion.

The conference will be held in Bavaria, Germany, on January 31 - February 2. Slutsky is part of a Russian official delegation to be led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.