Donbass Rejects Ukrainian Proposal on Foreign Mission
08 de enero de 2016, 10:58Kyiv, Jan 8 (Prensa Latina) The official representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People”s Republic (DPR) on the Ukrainian southeast, Denis Pushilin, rejected today the proposal of sending foreign UN peacekeeping troops to the conflict zone.
Pushilin expressed disagreement with the position of Kyiv on the arrival in the territory of representatives of the member states of the Security Council to discuss a possible deployment of an alleged peacekeeping operation.
The leader of the DPR evoked the agreements of Minsk of February 12th, 2015, signed in the Belarusian capital, where the parties ‘entrusted a special committee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe with the functions of control and verification,and none else, he said.
The conflict in the southeast Ukraine erupted in mid-2014, after the start of a large-scale military operation by the regular army and repressive commando actions against the rebel regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, whose residents rejected the coup in Kyiv in February that year.
No UN representatives nor peacekeeping organizations were provided, declared Pushilin to the Donetsk news agency.
According to the commissioner of the DPR in the Contact Group, this initiative is another attempt on the part of the Ukrainian authorities to review and modify the Minsk agreements, which was signed by the leaders of the so-called international quartet of Normandy (Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine).
Pushilin reiterated the rejection of these actions, which in his opinion, do not contribute to the implementation of those compromises in their entirety.
The proposal of Kyiv was announced yesterday by the new Ukrainian representative to the UN, Vladimir Elchenko, referring to a scheduled trip to Donbass of representatives of the member states of the Security Council, to prepare an international peacekeeping operation in the conflict territory.
In Moscow, Foreign Ministry sources commented on the willingness to evaluate the proposal, but with the observation that a mission of such nature must have the mandate of the world body and the consent of all warring parties, including the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk .
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