Olga Denisova. The UN security Council on the last working day of the week will hold a meeting on Ukraine, the Meeting is listed in the schedule of the Council, said the press service of the organization.

the meeting will be held at 10 am (18. 00 GMT). The meeting is convened on the initiative of France and the UK. It is assumed that the briefing will act Authorized the OSCE, such as the OSCE representative in the contact group of the parties to the conflict, Heidi Tagliavini, the head of the special monitoring of the OSCE mission to Ukraine Ertugal Apakan.

Next are assumed to be closed meeting.

As was previously announced Last news , the meeting may be held in the continuation of the talks between the foreign Ministers "channel four" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France), which took place on Tuesday in Paris. According to their results, the head of the foreign Ministry calling for the strengthening of the special mission by the OSCE and the increase of its mandate from the perspective of employees, equipment and additional charges ".

It is known that Ukraine is considering the statement in the UN with a request to send peacekeepers to the country.

on the first day of the week, the Secretary-General of the United Nations ban Ki-moon met with the Ministers of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.


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.

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