The Russian foreign Ministry does not see sense in the UN mission on the Russian-Ukrainian border
Moscow sees no sense in the deployment of the UN mission on the Russian-Ukrainian border. This was stated by Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Gennady Gatilov, reports on Thursday, September 21, TASS reported.
“They (Ukrainian representatives) want the deployment of UN personnel throughout the territory of Ukraine, including the Russian-Ukrainian border. Russia is not a party in this conflict, so there is no point in deploying peacekeepers on the border,” — he stressed.
Gatilov expressed the view that “Ukrainians are put on the head — the first thing they want to close the border between Russia and Ukraine, and then to solve or not to solve the problems associated with other aspects of settlement”. The diplomat also pointed to the fact that this approach contradicts the Minsk agreements and said that “there are a number of issues that must be resolved before the case goes to the conversation about the Russian-Ukrainian border”.
A day earlier, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the meeting of the UN security Council in new York said that Kiev needs help peacekeepers of the United Nations.
On 5 September Moscow made a resolution on peacekeepers in the UN Security Council. The proposal suggests placing the mission on the demarcation line between the militias of the breakaway republics and Ukrainian forces. Poroshenko said that the deployment of the peacekeeping mission in the Donbass not need to be agreed with representatives of the militia. In response, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the “blue helmets” UN “nowhere and never are located without the consent of the parties.”
Ukraine considers Russia a party to the conflict in the Donbass. Moscow denies the allegations of the presence of Russian military forces in the region.