The UN
Assessment Mission on Donbass arrived in Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian
Foreign Ministry’s press service has said. In the coming two weeks, the
mission’s members will be holding meetings with Ukraine’s leadership and are
also expected to make a visit to the country’s eastern regions in order to
assess Donbass’s demands, in particular in the sphere of humanitarian demining.
The mission featuring officials of the United Nations Development Programme,
children’s fund (Unicef) and UN Mine Action Service are due to assess security
and safety during their trip to Donbass and estimate the amount of required
actions needed to clear mines from its territory.
On January 4, 2016, Ukrainian
ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Yelchenko came up with an initiative to invite
permanent representatives (ambassadors) of the UN Security Council
member-nations to Donbass so as to convince them of the importance of unfolding
a peacekeeping mission in the region.
Yelchenko said that cooperation could
also promote through a UN office in Ukraine to be opened for supporting the
implementation of the Minsk deal, and which "will be in charge of
coordination of projects on humanitarian demining in Ukraine’s east."
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