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UkrInform: Yelchenko calls for concrete action on peacekeeping force in Donbas

Published March 29, 2018 at 11:40 am

Permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr (Vladimir) Yelchenko attends a UN Security Council meeting over the situation in the Middle East on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. The United States on Monday vetoed a draft UN resolution rejecting President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, after all 14 other Security Council members backed the measure.The veto cast by US Ambassador Nikki Haley highlighted Washington's isolation over Trump's announcement that the US embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively ignoring Palestinian claims on the city.

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Europe still faces a real threat of a full-fledged war due to Russia’s ongoing aggression, and today the situation requires concrete, constructive steps towards the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko said this at the open debate of the UN Security Council on March 28, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.