UN to facilitate search of diplomatic ways to settle and improve humanitarian situation in Ukraine's East

On August 21 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin received Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos.

During the meeting the parties discussed practical ways to use the opportunities of the United Nations for the peaceful settlement of the situation in the East of Ukraine, provoked by aggression of Russia, including mitigating of the humanitarian consequences.

The UN representatives assured in the readiness of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to continue personal engagement in this process, providing good services. The organization will strongly support the efforts directed to seeking a diplomatic solutions to improve the humanitarian situation in the East of the country.

The Foreign Minister of Ukraine expressed interest in further cooperation with the UN, in particular in the context of the mobilization of international humanitarian assistance and monitoring of the situation in the sphere of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in the East of the state and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.