US State Department special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker plans to visit Donetsk and Lugansk only, when they are returned under the control of the Ukrainian government. He stated this at a briefing in Slavyansk.
I'd much rather go there, when there is peace is restored and Ukrainian control - transmits his words "112 Ukraine".
State Department spokesman explained, he did not want "to give any reasons, to legitimize the so-called "political education" "- the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic, that, in his opinion, "We should not have been there".
Walker added, that the conditions for the restoration of peace can be created by the introduction of the UN mission.
We want, Russia to consider seriously the proposal to introduce a peacekeeping mission under a UN mandate - he said.
According to him, when Russia will be ready, he is ready to meet and. about. Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, or other representative of Moscow.
12 May the United States special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker declared his intention to visit the Donbass, but I reached only to Slavyansk, where is Tuesday. Today he met with the commander of the combined forces of Ukrainian Sergey Naevym. The special envoy of the State Department also announced plans to visit the area of the hostilities.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed, that Walker taking initiatives, which negate the Minsk agreement on the peaceful settlement of the Ukraine.
