Ukraine will demand at an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Tuesday, July 22 that the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) be recognized as terrorist organizations, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
“We [Ukraine] and the Netherlands will make every effort, in
particular during the meeting tomorrow of the EU Foreign Affairs Council
where Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will speak, so that the
so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics be declared terrorist
organizations and so that any cooperation or support the terrorists
receive is recognized as such under international law,” Poroshenko said
on Monday, July 21 while visiting the Dutch embassy in Kyiv.
Ukraine is preparing international lawsuits against the
self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, to label them as terrorist organizations,
Poroshenko said earlier on July 19 during a meeting with Dutch Foreign
Minister Frans Timmermans.
