Ukrainian president unveil peace plan

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko fulfilled the word that he gave after his election, and made his first trip of the Donetsk province on Friday. As reported by the press service in Kiev, Poroshenko traveled to “the center of the anti-terrorist operation ” where a military commander briefed him on account of the operation to defend the border with Russia. The president ordered units of the Armed Forces, National Guard and Patrol Service to a ceasefire. The ceasefire, he said, ” does not mean that we do not respond if attacked.” “We are ready to defend the territory of our state,” he added. Later, the president met with citizens in the city of Sviatogorsk (in the Donetsk region) and explained his peace plan for the area.

Earlier, senior officials of the Ukrainian had introduced the president’s plan to address the armed conflict with the separatist. Composed of 15 points, the document envisages a ceasefire, security guarantees for those involved in the negotiations, hostage release, amnesty for those who lay down their weapons and creating corridors bordering Russia to the separatists can leave the conflict area. It also provides for the creation of a demilitarized corridor five miles along the border between Russia and Ukraine.

The document was presented to the diplomatic representatives in Kiev by the deputy head of the presidential administration, Chali Valeri, who was accompanied by the new Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin, and President of the Security Council, Valentin Nalivaichenko. The plan is the result of discussions by representatives of Ukrainians and Russians in Kiev under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has acted as a mediator, represented by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini veteran. On Thursday night, for the second, Poroshenko, talked by phone on the plan with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian officials said they had discussed the plan Poroshenko 450 people from various sectors of Donbas (Don basin, formed by the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk) in the course of two days showed contacted by telephone in Kiev sources. Among the partners of the head of state, however, the leaders of the separatists, who have formed the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk (RPD) and People’s Republic of Lugansk (RPL) are not counted.

In a press conference in Moscow, Denis Pushilin, who introduced himself as the head of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RPD, rejected the Poroshenko plan ensuring that it ” says a lot of things publicly, but does nothing ” and that “no control the situation. ” “Poroshenko political statements are not practical ” said separatist leader.

Asked about the origin of the weapons used by insurgents, Pushilin stated that it is ” trophies.” However, senior officials in Kiev Ukrainian said Friday that a total of 10 tanks and 26 armored Russians had crossed the border during the night of Thursday to Friday, they said diplomatically from the Ukrainian capital. Ukrainian officials also referred to efforts to close a hole of 90 kilometers on the border with Russia in the region of Lugansk.

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