The possible mission of the United Nations to Ukraine might make its contribution to the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the Donbas conflict's peace settlement by proposing a supplementary mechanism to settle the crisis, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Thomas Greminger told Sputnik in an interview.
VIENNA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th November, 2018) The possible mission of the United Nations to Ukraine might make its contribution to the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the Donbas conflict's peace settlement by proposing a supplementary mechanism to settle the crisis, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Thomas Greminger told Sputnik in an interview."For a while we had hoped that perhaps UN operation would help us to overcome the political impasse of implementing the Minsk agreements. Right now the momentum seems to have gone in these discussions but it could be one of these supplementary things that you are referring to. But again, in the end, it's implementing the Minsk agreements, there's nothing else," Greminger said when answering a question about a need for some supplementary mechanism to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
The military operation in eastern Ukraine was launched by Kiev in 2014 against militias of Donbas, after local residents of the region refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities.
In February 2015, the parties to the Ukrainian conflict signed the Minsk peace accords in an effort to end the fighting in the crisis-torn region of the country. The Minsk agreements, in particular, provide for the separation of rival forces in Donbas. Despite the peace accords, ceasefire violations continue and the situation in the region remains tense.
