MFA informs of results of open UN Security Council's debate on situation in Ukraine
On May 28, an open debate of the United Nation’s
Security Council on Ukraine took place, which was summoned on the initiative of
the Great Britain targeting to discuss the situation within the country in the
context of results of early presidential elections on May 25, 2014.
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The meeting started with a briefing of
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Jeffrey Feltman.
He informed the UN Security Council’s members on the state of matters in
Ukraine, especially in parts of the east. J. Feltman
informed Ban Ki-Moon congratulated Petro Poroshenko on “having received a strong mandate from the
people”. In the debate were participating all the UN Security
Council delegations and Permanent representative of Ukraine to the United
Nations. Speeches of the overwhelming majority of the
delegations contained congratulations to the people and the Government of
Ukraine on successful holding of the presidential election campaign and the victory
of P. Poroshenko. The UN Security Council’s members
emphasized significance of the presence of a number of international
monitors, including representatives of international organizations. The overwhelming majority of UN Security Council
condemned the actions of pro-Russian separatists directed to disruption of
the elections in Donetsk and Luhansk and reaffirmed inherent right of the
Government of Ukraine to anti-terrorist operation. The UN SC delegations
called on the Russian Federation to take measures to prevent trespassing by
armored militants and armor of the territory of Ukraine from the Russian
side, and simultaneously, welcomed recent statements aired by the leaders of
the Russian Federation and contatining respect for
the choice of Ukrainian people made on May, 2014. |