Klimkin stressed that it is impossible to deploy a functioning mission within 20-30 days.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that it will take at least 6-10 months once a political decision is passed to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Donbas.
"If a political decision is made, then, as a rule, it takes at least six, nine or 10 months, or even more, for the United Nations to deploy the mission, and this is a rather large-scale mission," Klimkin said, speaking on Ukraine's ICTV channel.
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Klimkin stressed that it is impossible to deploy a functioning mission within 20-30 days. "It will take months," he stressed.
According to Ukraine's top diplomat, the logic of security should prevail in the issue of the mission's deployment.
"I will say functionally: first, tough security, then overall security, and then only preparation for the next election and a certain political component," Klimkin said.
The minister noted that there was no serious talk about peacekeepers in Donbas a year ago.
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He said that the last Munich Security Conference had shown that "no one will allow Russia playing by its own rules."
At the same time, he said, the problem with peacekeepers is whether "control over the occupied territories is transferred to the international community."
"So far, Russia is willing to retain its protectorate over the area, legalize it by introducing a very limited number of peacekeepers, and move on. If this happens, there will be nothing there by definition," Klimkin added.
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