13:40 28.10.2017

Ukrainian deputies unveil details of discussion with Volker on UN peacekeeping for Donbas

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Ukrainian deputies unveil details of discussion with Volker on UN peacekeeping for Donbas

United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker told Ukrainian parliamentarians at a recent meeting how an initiative to deploy peacekeepers in Donbas can be put up for a vote at the United Nations Security Council.

"Kurt Volker told us about the course of negotiations with the Russian side, the course of talks on the issue of peacekeepers, namely what questions are being discussed and how this issue can be put up for a vote at the UN Security Council," Batkivshchyna faction deputy Oleksiy Riabchyn told Interfax-Ukraine after Volker's meeting with Ukrainian MPs in Kyiv.

Negotiations are now under way on positions to be put forth in a relevant resolution, and work on such a document is in progress, the U.S. envoy said, according to Ryabchyn.

"Talks are currently ongoing. And they are fully in line with what the Ukrainian side has said that peacekeepers should operate throughout the conflict area and should control the Ukrainian-Russian border. There is also a number of diplomatic points that are being articulated in order to be included in the resolution," he said.

For his part, Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction MP Volodymyr Ariev said on his Facebook page after the meeting, citing Volker, that "a UN Security Council resolution on a peacekeeping mission may be prepared before the end of the year."

People's Front faction deputy Andriy Teteruk said that a UN resolution regarding a peacekeeping mission in the east of Ukraine may be ready before the end of the year.

"In his [Volker's] personal opinion, a UN resolution on such a peacekeeping mission may be ready before the end of this year," Teteruk wrote on his Facebook account on Saturday after the meeting.

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