UN security Council holds emergency meeting on Ukraine
Ivan Zakharchenko. The UN security Council gathered for an emergency closed meeting in Ukraine in connection with the crossing of the Ukrainian border column with Russian humanitarian aid.
Trucks with Russian homemost arrived to the border on August 14, but the Ukrainian side start customs clearance only 21 August. On the last working day of the week column crossed the border and arrived in Lugansk. The Ukrainian foreign Ministry called it " infractions of international norms " and tried to persuade international partners to condemn the Russian Federation. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation believe that all kinds of excuses to delay the delivery of assistance to people in the area of humanitarian catastrophe exhausted, and recalled that the mission was preparing for a long time, in total transparency and in cooperation with the Ukrainian side and the Red cross.
As he said to reporters before the meeting, the permanent representative of Lithuania to the UN Raymond Myrmekite, on whose initiative is the Council, a report will be the assistant Secretary-General for political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Elena taranko.
" Can hardly wait for the adoption of any of the statements, " she added.
Russia, As one of the five permanent members of the UN security Council, can veto to block any decisions and statements in the Council. The end of the meeting, the Ambassador to the UK mark Lial Grant - head of the security Council in the last month of summer promised to speak to the media.
before the last working day of the week Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said at a press conference that Moscow was not able to expect more delays crossing the convoy because of the immediate need to care for the residents of Eastern Ukraine.