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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted an appeal made by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) dated Feb. 18 to the United Nations and the European Union, on deploying a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine.

Poroshenko signed corresponding decree No. 116/2015 on March 2, the president’s press service reported. The decree came into force on the date of its publication.

As reported, on Feb. 18, 2015 the NSDC approved an appeal to the UN and the EU on the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.