MUNICH. Feb 9 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most European politicians disapprove of the prospect of arms supplies to Ukraine, and Russia has a similar position on the matter.
"If differences imply an attitude towards whether to supply weapons to Ukraine, the overwhelming majority, if not all of European politicians consider it a bad idea. An idea which can only aggravate the deep Ukrainian crisis," Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
The world has already seen examples of how weapons supplied to a conflict zone very quickly "get into bad hands," he said. .
"Especially considering that the incumbent president in Ukraine does not have full monopoly over military and security agencies," the minister said.
Attempts to intensive the topic of possible arms supplies to Ukraine cannot undermine the efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisis, he said.
"Current attempts to exacerbate the topic of arms supplies to Ukraine, including possible calls being heard from the Ukrainian government, cannot undermine the efforts being undertaken in the framework of the Normandy format (France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine), especially after the meeting held in Moscow, the efforts aimed at swift appeasement of the situation, at ceasefire, at removal of heavy weapons," Lavrov said.