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Ukraine is not considering the option of introducing UN peacekeepers to Donbass, as Russia has a veto in this organization. Now we are talking about increasing OSCE observers from 500 to 2 thousand people, said Alexey Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbas.
Ukraine is not considering the issue of the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas and proposes to quadruple the composition of the OSCE mission. This was announced on December 11 at a briefing by the adviser to the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass, Alexey Arestovich. The briefing was broadcast by the Ukraine Crisis Media Center on YouTube.
“Regarding the roadmap that was announced by (the fifth) president (of Ukraine Petro) Poroshenko. Well, I am very glad that he fully supports the plan of joint steps that the delegation of Ukraine proposed in the contact group, they coincide 99%. The only difference is UN peacekeepers. We are talking about increasing the number of observers in the OSCE mission four times. Now about 500, and we are planning 2,000, “he said.
Arestovich explained that Russia has the right of veto, therefore, while the option is not considered with the UN peacekeepers.
“She will just veto. For a year, she can agree that we” introduce UN peacekeepers, “and then a veto, and all the work is in vain,” he described the prospects for that option.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Germany and France have been negotiating the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Donbas since September 2017. Kiev insists that peacekeepers must be present throughout the Donbass, even in the uncontrolled section of the border between Ukraine and Russia. Moscow is committed to deploying a UN mission only on the contact line.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said in September this year that the question of the introduction of international peacekeepers in Donbas has not yet been raised.
In July 2020, Reznikov said that Ukraine was working on the deployment of OSCE peacekeepers in Donbas.
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