Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Deschytsia and Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertogrul Apakan admitted that urgent concrete steps to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine should be made as a part of the Geneva agreements of April 17, 2014.
According to a press release of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine and the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine issued on April 19 by the ministry’s press service, Deschytsia met Apakan in Kyiv and representatives of participants of the Geneva meeting held on April 17 (the EU, Russia and the United States) also took part in the meeting.
“It was agreed at the meeting to take urgent measures for the practical implementation of the Geneva statement of April 17. Meeting participants admitted the necessity of taking urgent concrete steps to de-escalate the situation,” reads the report.
Ukraine informed the guests on the first steps made in this direction.
In turn, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reported on its plans to send the deputy mission head to eastern regions of Ukraine to draw up practical modules of the implementation of the Geneva statement and on the current work of mission members in the regions.
Meeting participants decided to hold regular meetings in the near term to coordinate the quickest implantation of the Geneva statement of April 17.
