Borrell to visit Donbas in coming weeks

He said this at a press conference after the sixth meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council held in Brussels on Tuesday, January 28, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"I would like to visit the most relevant parts of the country from the point of view of external relations. I would like to visit the Donbas, the border where there is still a certain amount of military activities, in order to perceive by myself how the situation is there," Borrell said.

"We have to make the most important efforts, first of all, to stop people being killed. Second, I want to underline that the results of the last [Normandy format] meeting in Paris has to be implemented on the ground," he said.

Borrell stressed the need to develop efforts on several lines. "First, humanitarian assistance, second demining. We can save a lot of lives, and third major infrastructure and feasibility studies and economic prospects, in order to prepare future possible reconstructions," he noted.

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