Ukraine officially requests UN peacekeepers
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Ukraine has sent a formal request to the UN to deploy the peacekeeping mission to eastern Ukraine.
KYIV, March 13 /Ukrinform/. Ukraine has sent a formal request to the UN to deploy the peacekeeping mission to eastern Ukraine.
Spokesman for Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Yevhen Perebyinis has said this in commentary to the Associated Press.
"The size and scope of the proposed mission would be worked out in consultation with the U.N.," Perebyinis said.
According to the spokesman, the preliminary request for the mission has been submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and that another would follow after the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approves the proposal.
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