Any discussion of the Ukrainian issue must be held with the participation of both Moscow and Kiev, taking into account their concerns, including in security, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe told Sputnik on Saturday.
"A peace dialogue must include all. You cannot discuss it with only one side. All parties must be involved, including their concerns, including security ... We need an inclusive process in which all parties will participate: Russia, Ukraine and all interested forces. All of them must be part of the process," Nduhungirehe said on the sidelines of the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi.
Rwanda took part in the Ukraine conference in Switzerland this summer and found its signature under the resulting communique, although consultations among Rwandan diplomats on the provisions of the document were still ongoing, the minister also said.
"We said to the organizers that our country should be taken off the list. We did not confirm our signature under the declaration," Nduhungirehe added.
On June 15-16, Switzerland hosted a high-level conference on Ukraine at the Burgenstock resort outside of Lucerne. Russia had not received an invitation, but even if it had, it would not have attended the conference, Russian officials said. The joint communique following the summit called on Russia to return control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to Ukraine, to provide commercial access to seaports in the Black and Azov Seas, and to fully exchange prisoners of war.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said back then it considered the Ukraine summit to be a failure, as the West and Kiev need to understand that Moscow’s peace initiative has no alternatives.
Events like the summit in Switzerland are unable to create necessary conditions for a serious dialogue on sustainable peace, the ministry added.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said earlier that Moscow regrets that the United Nations participated in the conference on Ukraine in Switzerland under an observer status, an act contrary to the UN Charter.