Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have discussed the possibility of creating new mechanisms to facilitate the United Nations' involvement in efforts to settle the situation in Donbas.
“UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assured [Ukraine] of his complete
support of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and
announced his readiness to enhance the organization’s presence with the
aim of de-escalating and stabilizing the situation in the east of
Ukraine,” the ministry said.
At their meeting, Klimkin informed the UN secretary general about the
course of negotiations under way within the ‘Normandy format’ and the
trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine, as well as the progress already
made in implementing the Minsk peace agreements for Ukraine and
preparations to hold the local elections in line with international
standards.
“[The parties] covered inadmissibility of Russia-backed militants’
hampering of the work of United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs on the territory of certain districts of Donetsk
and Luhansk regions, which for the last months made it impossible to
bring humanitarian cargos of UN and other international organizations to
the civil society,” the ministry’s press service said.
