The UN Security Council will convene later in the day an open session to address the situation in Ukraine in light of the upcoming elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th October, 2018) The UN Security Council will convene later in the day an open session to address the situation in Ukraine in light of the upcoming elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, a diplomatic source told Sputnik that the council would hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss DPR elections, scheduled for November 11. The source added that the meeting would be held at the request of several Western countries, including the United States, France and the United Kingdom.�
"The Bolivian chair of the UN Security Council announced holding today an open session of the council on the situation in Ukraine," the ministry said in a statement.
According to the ministry, the upcoming DPR elections "endanger the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state and run counter to the Minsk accords."
France urged Russia to prevent escalation in Donbas and expressed concern over the humanitarian situation, the ministery added.
