MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - Moscow is familiar with OSCE Special Envoy for Ukraine Martin Sajdik's settlement plan but believes such ideas should be supported by the parties to the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry Department of European Cooperation (DEC) Director Andrei Kelin said.
"We know about this plan. Ambassador Sajdik does have a number of ideas on how the work done by the OSCE and the UN in Donbas could be combined, but the thing is that this is his personal plan," Kelin told journalists in Moscow in response to a request for comment from Interfax on Tuesday.
This plan "is quite extensive, forty pages," and Moscow has studied it, he said.
"But it's not supported by the parties to the conflict. It hasn't been supported by the Ukrainian side. Therefore, this is just one of the numerous plans that are circulating these days and that various mediators have been trying to propose. It is of critical importance that such a plan be supported by the parties to the conflict" - that is, by Kyiv and by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), Kelin said.
"This is the only basis on which any constructive steps forward are possible," he said.