Lukin to continue consultations over Ukraine resolution (Part 2)

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Consultations over resolution of the situation in Ukraine will continue, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin said after returning to Moscow from Kyiv.

"We talked. We clarified each other's positions. We shall continue consultations. In this sense, there is certainly progress," Lukin told Interfax on Friday night.

I did not sign the agreement settling the Ukrainian crisis, he said.

"No, I did not. Several issues remain. Consultations will continue, it is a normal process," Lukin said.

"I do not know, it will be decided here, in Moscow, in a calm atmosphere," Lukin said when asked about plans to visit Kyiv again.

"Dialogue will definitely continue. But who will continue it, how and in what sequence, that is a technical and diplomatic matter that will be discussed," he said.

"There is a chance of achieving peace in Ukraine. People are working on it. But the situation there is very complicated and quite fluid, people you have to talk too are coming and going. The conversation will continue, including with our partners in Europe," the ombudsman said.