Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin announced that the text of the resolution on the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Donbas is prepared.
Ukraine wrote the draft along with the U.S., Germany, France and Great Britain.
Klimkin discussed the resolution in a Nov. 10 interview on Inter television channel.
The minister didn’t give many details about the future peacekeeping mission, but emphasized that neither Russian troops nor “those who Russia might use” should be allowed in the mission.
Klimkin said that the mission will be located throughout all the occupied territories and along the borders with Russia “until we can start preparing for the transition period,” presumably back to Ukrainian control.
He also admitted that implementing the plan “would be very hard” because “Russia will play games with it.”
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that U.S. officials are seeking Russia’s agreement for 20,000 peacekeepers across Ukraine’s embattled east.
Klimkin neither confirmed nor denied the information but mentioned that “the discussion on quantity is still being held.”
“We have a plan,” he added. “As soon as I can tell more, I will tell more.”
Apart from that, Klimkin commented on the meeting of the U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker and Vladimir Putin’s advisor Vladislav Surkov on Nov. 13 in Belgrade, Serbia.
“My attitude towards the meeting on Monday is very cautious, if not to say skeptical,” he said.
