UN Security Council to hold session on Ukraine on Oct 30

10:22, 30.10.2018 1 min read

The UN Security Council will hold an open session on the Ukraine issue on Tuesday, October 30, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Oleh Nikolayenko has announced.

"On Tuesday, October 30, the UN Security Council will hold an open session to discuss the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine," Nikolayenko said in a post on his page on Facebook.

He said that the session is scheduled to start at 9 PM Kyiv time.

As was earlier reported, Ukraine has been calling to bring a UN peacekeeping mission into Donbas to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe there and protect civilians. This was in particular mentioned by Iryna Heraschenko, the Ukrainian president's commissioner for a peaceful resolution of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in her address during the open debates at the UN Security Council on October 25.

She said that Ukraine also calls for the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution about the violation of human rights in the occupied Crimea and on the militarization of Crimea and the Sea of Azov.