Klimkin discusses Donbas peacekeepers and Crimea situation with UN secretary general
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin met with UN Secretary General António Guterres in New York to discuss the prospects of a UN peacekeeping mission to the Donbas, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN Oleh Nikolenko told Ukrinform.
According to Nikolenko, they also discussed matters of human rights protection and collaboration in the humanitarian aspect.
“Pavlo Klimkin and UN Secretary General António Guterres discussed the prospects of bringing a UN peacekeeping mission into Eastern Ukraine, matters of human rights protection in temporarily occupied Crimea, collaboration in the humanitarian sphere, as well as the release of Ukrainian political prisoners and hostages from Russian prison,” Nikolenko said.
He also explained that Klimkin had sent the UN Secretary General an open letter on behalf of the Association of Relatives of Political Hostages of the Kremlin, as well as Ukrainian advocacy and social organizations. The foreign minister requested collaboration in bringing about the release of the Ukrainians who are being held illegally in Russian prisons, Nikolenko observed.
On December 15, during the UN Security Council session devoted to the situation in the Korean peninsula, Klimkin pointed out that Russia’s annexation of Crimea led to an expansion of the territory where nuclear weapons are deployed, since Russia could deploy nuclear weapons on the peninsula it is occupying.