President Vladimir Putin «in the near future intends to sign» a decree recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, the Kremlin reported.
He said this during a telephone conversation with the President of France and the German Chancellor. Those in response «expressed disappointment with this development,» the message says. =»1″ />The Security Council spoke in favor of recognizing the DNR and LNR
Before making a decision, Putin held a meeting of the Security Council. He invited its participants to express their opinion on the recognition of the independence of the DNR and LNR.
Putin emphasized that he had not discussed this issue with any of the meeting participants in advance: “Each of you knows that I did not discuss anything with anyone in advance, I did not ask your opinion in advance, and what is happening now , comes from a blank slate, because I wanted to get your opinion without any prior preparation.
As a result, the need to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed republics was made, in particular, by Deputy Head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin.
For more details on how the meeting went, go online at Mediazones.