Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group, the second president of the country, believes that the top priority option in efforts for further stabilization in Donbas is the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in the region.
“I share the president’s view that the main option in the future is a peacekeeping mission, be that under the auspices of the United Nations or the European Union,” Kuchma told reporters on Friday when asked the question by Interfax on the margins of the 12th Yalta European Strategy (YES) annual meeting.
Nowadays, the Western partners handle this issue ‘with great care’, he said.
“This is our main option in the situation. I have no reasons to hope for anything else,” he added.
