Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Deshchytsia received Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson
Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine A. Deshchytsia
received Deputy
Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson.
Jan Eliasson is visiting Ukraine at the
request of the UN Secretary-General in order to get first-hand information
about the situation in our country.
The sides were unanimous as to the necessity of the unconditional
respect of the fundamental norms and principles of the UN Charter, primarily as
regards peaceful settlement of conflicts. They stressed the priority task of
safeguarding of the state sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence
of Ukraine. “Calm, international solidarity and peace – these are the three key
messages of Ukraine”, Andrii Deshchytsia
emphasized.
The possible ways of involving of the UN potential in de-escalation of
the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC), in particular through
assistance in ensuring of the international monitoring presence in the ARC,
were discussed. It was agreed to consider the issue of the visit to Crimea of
the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Robert H.Serry,
who is visiting Ukraine together with Jan Eliasson.