UN assessment mission for Donbas to begin on Jan 23

11:06, 19.01.2016 1 min read

A UN mission tasked to assess stabilization in Donbas will begin on January 23, says a report published on the website of the Ukrainian Permanent Mission to the UN on Tuesday.

"In the context of the enhancing UN role in the Donbas stabilization, a UN assessment mission will start working in Ukraine on January 23, 2016, at the request of the Ukrainian side," the report said.

The mission will be comprised of representatives from the UN Development Program, the UNICEF and the UN Mine Action Service.

The mission is planned to meet with officials from Ukrainian central authorities, and to visit Donbas in order to study local needs, including the need for humanitarian demining.

Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN, Volodymyr Yelchenko, said earlier that they planned to organize a trip of permanent representatives from the member countries of the UN Security Council to Donbas in order to convince them of the need to deploy a peacekeeping operation.