Interfax: “Putin plan” on Ukraine only a proposal on priority measures – spokesman

(Interfax – September 3, 2014) Putin’s plan to settle the situation in Ukraine is only a proposal on priority measures, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov has said, Russian privately-owned Interfax news agency reported on 3 September.

“This is not an exhaustive plan. It is a proposal on priority measures and everything else is an issue for further talks,” Peskov told Interfax, answering a question about the absence in the plan of issues connected with the status of territories in Ukraine’s southeast.

He said that the main aim of the measures proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin is to stop the bloodshed and stabilize the situation in southeast Ukraine.

“It is not a dogma, on which someone is insisting and which they are trying to impose on someone. It (the plan – Interfax) can be taken as a basis completely, or partially. The main thing is that the sides in the conflict cease fire and proceed to talks as soon as possible,” Peskov said.

He said that the plan was announced publicly and there should now be reaction to it. “It was announced to the whole world,” Peskov said, adding that the Kremlin is now waiting for reaction.