UN assessment mission on the settlement in Donbass earn January 23 – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, Jan 19 – RIA Novosti. Estimated UN mission to stabilize the situation in the Donbass will start working from January 23, reported at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations on Tuesday.

“in the context of strengthening the UN’s role in stabilizing the situation in the Donets Basin, at the request of the Ukrainian side with the January 23, 2016 in Ukraine will start evaluation mission of the UN. The mission will include representatives of the UN Development Programme, UN Children’s Fund and the Office of the United Nations demining, “- said the agency.

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It is planned that the mission will hold meetings with officials of the central executive authorities in Kiev, as well as travel to the Donbass for the study of local needs, particularly in the field of mine clearance.

Earlier in the beginning of January, the new representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Vladimir Yelchenko at a meeting with Secretary General of the organization Ban Ki-moon invited to an assessment mission to prepare for the peacekeeping operation in the Donbas. According to him, the Ukrainian side is ready to discuss the mandate and other aspects of such operations.

The Ukrainian authorities in March launched an initiative to deploy a peacekeeping mission in the Donbass. The military peacekeeping mission can be formed only with the sanction of the UN Security Council. Russia, which has veto power in the Security Council is ready to discuss the issue of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine, but the leadership of the country has a number of questions.

The Ukrainian authorities in April 2014 launched a military operation against the breakaway LC and DNR. According to the latest UN data, victims of the conflict began more than 9 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, including during meetings in Minsk, the contact group, which since September 2014 has adopted three documents governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict, including the armistice. However, after the Armistice Agreements between the parties to the conflict are continuing skirmishes.