KIEV, June 5. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has insisted on deploying the United Nations peacekeepers along the border with Russia.
"We are trying to do utmost to attract the representatives of the [UN] security missions to protect Ukraine against the aggression of Russia, including along the uncontrolled part of the Ukrainian-Russian border," he told a press conference in Kiev.
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on Thursday passed a law allowing foreign armed forces to support "peace and security in the country." The document is to serve as grounds for carrying out a peacekeeping operation on Ukraine’s territory based on the UN or the EU decisions as part of providing the country’s with aid.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said earlier Ukraine had the right to turn to the UN Security Council with the request for deploying peacekeepers in an effort to establish peace in the country.
A Russian lawmaker on Thursday reacted to the move saying the new law contradicts the Minsk agreements, even if peacekeepers were deployed by a decision of the UN or EU.
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