Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed UDAR party MP Iryna Heraschenko to the recently established post of presidential envoy for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the country's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Under the document, Heraschenko will have to present the Ukrainian
president’s stance concerning ways to de-escalate the situation in the
country’s southeastern regions, secure civil reconciliation, prevent
attacks on the health and live of people in the Donetsk and Luhansk
regions, suppress any encroachment on Ukraine’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity, as well as enact the president-proposed peace
plan for the country’s southeast.
The presidential decree enables the envoy to arrange and attend
consultations, roundtables and conferences addressing issues within her
jurisdiction.
The document comes into force on the day of its publication.
Iryna Heraschenko, 43, a journalist and a political figure, served as
former President Viktor Yuschenko’s press secretary in 2005-2006. She
held the post of MP from the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction
in 2007-2012. She joined the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the
UDAR faction in 2012. She is also responsible for media coverage of
integration processes at the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee for Integration
into Europe.
