MINSK. June 24 (Interfax) - Any Western proposal in the context of settling the Ukrainian crisis will be taken by Russia as an ultimatum, Russia has received no specific proposal after the first Swiss conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We take everything that is happening solely as a consequence of a situation where we are faced with Western ultimatums, and all decisions our president makes on further steps are coming from that," Lavrov told journalists in Minsk on Monday.
"Our goodwill is well-known, we have plenty of it," he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent initiative on the Ukraine peaceful settlement was perceived negatively by the West, he said.
"We are not in clandestine talks [on Ukraine] with anyone, the West refuses to organize negotiations based on fairness," Lavrov said.
"Speaking of the announced plans to hold a second conference further to this 'get-together' in Buergenstock, I can only say that the phrasings that we heard - and we only heard what was said, there was no attempt to contact us in person - all the phrasings belched by the West on this subject are in line with the same policy of ultimatums towards the Russian Federation," Lavrov said.