Ukraine hopes for stronger EU role in Donbas settlement - president
KYIV. April 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the European Union should play a more active role in settling the conflict in Donbas.
"Unity within the European Union, unity within the whole of the civilized democratic world in supporting Ukraine is of crucial importance. Therefore, the sanctions which the EU has applied to Russia in reaction to its moves against Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, were a forced but absolutely indispensable step which must be carried further until the Minsk agreements have been implemented in full," Poroshenko said at a Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv on Monday.
Aware of an unprecedented character of the present-day threats, a search must be started for effective reaction instruments, he said.
"We hope for the EU's stronger leading role in the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas," Poroshenko said.
In view of this, Ukraine has urged he UN and EU to deploy an international peacekeeping and security operation in Ukraine in order to facilitate exhaustive implementation of the Minsk accords, Poroshenko said.
