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12 September, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to possibility of deploying United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine not only on the contact line between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian army after phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday said he supported widening the terms for a proposed United Nations force to protect observers monitoring the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but his proposal was unlikely to get Kiev's agreement.

Taking into account the ideas expressed by Merkel, Putin said Moscow was ready to add new functions to this United Nations mission proposed in the Russian variant of a United Nations resolution on Ukraine.

Seibert said Merkel had already discussed the issue with other leaders, including US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and a call was also planned with Putin.

Merkel's spokesperson said Berlin welcomed the proposal "in principle" adding that "it remains to be seen whether agreement can be reached on the details".

Russian Federation last week asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a lightly-armed mission to protect global observers monitoring the conflict in eastern Ukraine. But he indicated that the peacekeepers would operate only along the front line separating Ukrainian government forces and separatists.

Meanwhile, Kyiv said the mission should patrol the whole conflict zone including the border between Russian Federation and the separatist-held parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Kyiv says is used to ship weapons and military personnel in from Russian Federation.

"Its goal should not be the preservation of Russia's occupation and the legalization of the Russian military presence, but a durable peace", Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on September 7.

Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russian Federation of being behind the insurgency in a conflict that has killed 10,000 people since 2014.


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