MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax) - The Crimea Platform summit, initiated by the Ukrainian administration, is provocative in nature, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel, which addressed the internal Ukrainian crisis, the presidential press service said on Wednesday.
"The need to intensify the talks between the conflict parties to implement the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures, which is the foundation of settlement that has no alternatives, was emphasized during the discussion on the internal Ukrainian crisis," the report said.
"Vladimir Putin said the Kyiv authorities are persistently evading the fulfilment of the obligations they assumed, in particular, [the obligation] to establish direct dialogue with Donetsk and Luhansk and legalization of the special status of Donbas. The provocative nature of the Ukrainian administration's idea of holding the so-called Crimea Platform summit, bearing in mind that the issue of Crimea's return to the Russian Federation was finally closed back in March 2014, was also stated," the press service said.
"In this regard, it was stated that the European Union continues pursuing discriminatory policies on residents of the peninsula," the report said.
When the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh was discussed, the Russian president, at Michel's request, informed of the steps taken to implement the provisions of the trilateral agreements of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021, the press service said.