The Kremlin spokesman called against
"eroding the essence of the Russian proposal" on a peacekeeping
mission.
MOSCOW,
September 18. /TASS/. Situation around the idea of deploying peacekeepers to
Donbass depends on whether Kiev and Washington take a constructive stance,
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
"Certainly,
now everything will depend on whether Kiev and the United States have a
constructive stance," Peskov said commenting on the prospects of the UN’s
considering of a proposal on deploying peacekeepers to Donbass.
The Kremlin spokesman called against "eroding the essence of the Russian proposal" on a peacekeeping mission that is aimed at ensuring security of staff members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) working in the conflict zone.
Peskov
recalled that Moscow has been pursuing the line towards contributing to
searching for a solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine and is one of the
countries-guarantors of the Minsk peace deal. These agreements are not
implemented due to "Kiev’s unpreparedness and unwillingness to implement
those unambiguous points signed by all the respective sides in documents,"
he noted.
On
September 5, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would submit a
resolution to the UN Security Council on the deployment of UN peacekeepers
along the demarcation line in Donbass to ensure security of the OSCE Special
Monitoring Mission.
He stressed
however that deployment of UN peacekeepers could only be possible after weapons
withdrawal from the area and upon agreement with the self-proclaimed Donbass
republics. The president said the peacekeepers could be deployed not only along
the contact line.
Source: ITAR-TASS 18-09-2017
