MOSCOW. June 27 (Interfax) - It is hoped that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko submitting amendments to the Constitution will not turn out to be an ultimatum in regard to southeastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"I hope that the statement of President Poroshenko where he submits a new variant of the Constitution to the Verkhovna Rada to consider and simultaneously submits it to the Council of Europe for assessing by the so-called Venice Commission does not mean yet another proposal based on the principle 'agree, or will do otherwise' and that it is not yet another ultimatum," Lavrov said at a news conference in Moscow on Friday.