Olga Denisova. Certain members of the UN security Council resolution, such as the US and the UK, are trying to rewrite Minsk consensus and impose the OSCE mission in Ukraine tasks that are not included in its range of capabilities, said the Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin on the results of the meeting of the Council in Ukraine.

"What happens is that We, in General, and waited. We are not quite supported the holding of this meeting, because trying to rewrite Minsk consensus as to teach the OSCE what they can do, and to impose that goes beyond the mandate of the mission, headed by ertu?rul Apakan, " said Churkin Russian reporters after a closed consultations on the last working day of the week. According to his statement, to impose the OSCE mission fresh regulatory options try the US and the UK.

on the last working day of the week the UN Security Council on the initiative of France held a special meeting on Ukraine. With the briefing of members of the Board were made by the head of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine Ambassador ertu?rul Apakan and the special representative of the OSCE Chairperson of the contact group in Ukraine Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini. Further, the security Council members continued meeting in a closed format.

According to Churkin, on the meeting of the Security Council has made a proposal to the OSCE mission control throughout the Russian-Ukrainian border. Also discussed was the issue of providing mission of new resources needed for the work of the observers.

These questions, reviews Churkin, must not discuss the UN security Council and the OSCE Permanent Council.

"There Minsk consensus, where the border issue is treated, There is a corresponding mandate. What is the sense of the security Council to discuss - as amended). To psychologically influence, to divert attention, " said Churkin.

"instead of having to peck at one point that we should stop fighting and realize Minsk consensus, a set of measures, and to fulfill the mandate of the OSCE, try some mess to make," said the Russian Ambassador.

However, he noticed that the security Council in General structurally agitating for execution of the Minsk agreements, " but calling withdrawing from the implementation of measures Minsk arrangements are very much ".

"I hope that Apakan and Tagliavini - they are citizens persistent that they psychologically this will not have an impact," said Churkin.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass With fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a Security zone.


Declared a ceasefire, according to the statements of the parties to the conflict and observers, observed throughout the contact line, with the exception of Debaltsevo. This city, according to the examination results of the militia, in the so-called boiler was about three thousand Ukrainian security forces in Kiev denied environment. All the last days in the area Debaltsevo, one of the largest transport hubs in the Ukraine, there were clashes security forces and militia. Developments -

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