It
is the government and parliamentary opposition of Ukraine that must
decide who to ask to be the possible mediator in the current Ukrainian
crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted on Wednesday.
"We will support any form of external assistance in
crisis settlement efforts by the current authorities in Ukraine within
the Ukrainian constitutional framework. But it is up to the authorities
and opposition, which represents a certain part of the population in
[parliament], to make decisions," Lavrov told a news conference in
Kuwait City.