Schetyna: the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the EU will discuss the organization's peacekeeping mission to Ukraine
The possibility of organizing a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine will become one of the key issues at the meeting of foreign Ministers of the EU in Riga, said Polish foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna. "Yes, of course, will discuss how to build," said he, answering the question whether Ministers met to discuss the Possibility of organizing a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine, RIA " Novosti ". According to him, this will be " one of the key issues. Schetyna added that the outcome will be possible to judge the results of the meetings of foreign Ministers " today and tomorrow ". The Commissioner in the negotiations about extending Johannes Hahn said that EU countries to discuss the strengthening of the OSCE mission in Ukraine, and not sending peacekeepers, reports a news Agency. Before the last working day of the week, the Belgian foreign Minister Didier Reynders said that the EU until not discussing the Possibility of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine. On Thursday, the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov said that at this stage of the settlement of the Minsk agreements sufficient monitoring mission of the OSCE, the introduction of peacekeepers to Ukraine Moscow does not support. On the same day the Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb said that the EU could send a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine only because of the mandate of the UN security Council, which is unlikely to be obtained. On Wednesday, the Commissioner of Russia to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that the proposal of Kiev on peacekeepers in the Donbass was not supported neither in the EU nor in the USA. Remember, February 18, Poroshenko has made the initiative of the Council to discuss the introduction of peacekeepers to the country. The NSDC of Ukraine has decided to appeal to the UN and the EU in relation to deployment in Ukraine police mission. It was stated that Kiev offers to enter in the Donbass first peacekeepers to de-escalate, and then the police mission EU to maintain order. Secretary-General of the United Nations ban Ki-moon on February 24, agreed with the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin possible deployment of a peacekeeping mission in the conflict area. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine motivated request of Kiev about peacekeepers fact that the OSCE is unable to cope with the control of the armistice.