MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The State Duma has stated it will be ready to cooperate with the new Ukrainian authorities even if this cooperation proves uneasy.
"Ukraine is a fraternal nation to us. However inconvenient and difficult the new authorities will be for us, we shall talk to them at all levels," head of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots Leonid Slutsky told reporters on Friday.
Most likely, the draft agreement stipulating early elections, coalition government formation with a ten-day period and a return to the 2004 Constitution will be signed by all parties to the negotiating process in Kyiv, he said.
"If this agreement is signed, it will by no means separate us from the Ukrainian people. The new authorities are not a reason for uneasy statements, this is a reason for constructive dialogue," he said.