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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 29 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT / NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
29 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):
“We remain deeply concerned over the continuing violations of the ceasefire and the restriction of access for the SMM. I strongly believe that implementing the Minsk agreements is the only way towards a sustainable political solution. And I call on both sides present in this Council to live up to their responsibilities.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Yelchenko, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations:
“Ukraine's steps towards implementation of the Minsk Agreements have not been reciprocated by Russia. Moscow still relies on pseudo-republics it has manufactured as a tool, which could be activated at any time the Kremlin considers expedient, including by triggering new phases of conflict.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Represetnative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
"Kiev, first and foremost, should want to see the implementation of the package of measures, just like Russia does. It’s time to halt the crisis. It wasn’t supposed to begin in the first place, it there hadn’t been a policy, this undermining policy, of the spheres of influence which the US criticized today."
9. Wide shot, Council
Germany’s foreign minister said he was “deeply concerned” over continuing violations of the ceasefire in Ukraine and called on parties to the conflict to “live up to their responsibilities.”
Speaking today (29 Feb) to the Security Council as this year’s chair to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that he believed that implementing the Minks agreements was the only “sustainable political solution.”
Ukraine’s ambassador told delegates that the situation in his country remains “fragile” and that Ukraine's steps toward simple implementation of the Minsk Agreements have “not been reciprocated by Russia.”
Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the Ukrainian government “first and foremost, should want to see the implementation of the package of measures, just like Russia does.”
He said it was time “to halt the crisis” which “wasn’t supposed to begin in the first place.”
About 700 observers are deployed to the Ukraine border and are often denied access. Earlier this month the OSCE extended the monitoring in mission in Ukraine for another year.
The war in east Ukraine has killed thousands and driven more than 1 million from their homes.
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