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Leonid Kravchuk

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2021-02-11
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2021-02-11
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  1. “As Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, I am ready for close interaction every day. I invite everyone to continue constructive dialogue, and I am pleased that your Ambassadors in Ukraine are working closely to that end by providing the necessary assistance to our country. I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate that United Nations peacebuilding work in occupied Donbas can be a very important part of our cooperation aimed at restoring basic infrastructure, the rule of law, governance and transitional justice. I hope that reintegration will come about soon, the sooner the better. Let me assure you that Ukraine will continue to make the necessary efforts to resolve the conflict. We expect the same approach from the Russian side.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  2. “Almost three years ago, the occupying administration stopped pumping groundwater, and radiation is already leaking into the aquifers for drinking water. In addition, as a result of Russian aggression, the International Atomic Energy Agency has not been able to verify locations in the occupied territories where nuclear material is used since 2014. Ukraine is making concrete efforts, but so far we have not received a response from the Russian side to our respective request, which is of great concern to us. I am convinced that while we discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreements we should also think about the future, when the conflict is, I hope, over. Together with the Security Council and the Secretariat, we need to look strategically at the future of Donbas. Let us continue our hard but much-needed work. Together we can do a lot.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  3. “In fact, the Russian Federation has turned certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as Crimea, into major military outposts. Russia continues to issue hundreds of thousands of Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens living in the occupied territories. Donbas is on the brink of an environmental disaster, and not only because of air and soil pollution and explosions of munitions and mines, but also because of radioactive emissions. I would remind you that in 1979 a nuclear explosion was carried out by the Soviet Government in the territory of the Yunkom mine, which is now in temporarily occupied Donbas. After the explosion, a radioactive cavity was formed in the mine, from which water was constantly pumped out to prevent radiation from reaching the surface and groundwater.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  4. “We see restrictions on the freedom of movement in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as a lack of safe and reliable access to the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, including to the temporarily uncontrolled segment of the Ukrainian-Russian border and temporarily occupied Crimea. The illegal crossing of the non-controlled segment of the border by Russian cargo and road convoys, which deliver weapons, ammunition and personnel to the temporarily occupied territory, has become a common practice. I must say that no one is currently misled by Russia’s attempts to convince the international community that there are no Russian troops, weapons or mercenaries in Ukraine.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  5. “Owing to the artificial obstruction of the work of the Trilateral Contact Group on the political track, there has been no progress in the consideration of Ukraine’s working proposals regarding the implementation of the political aspects of the general agreed conclusions of the Normandy Four summit in Paris on 9 December 2019. There is still no adequate response from the Russian side to our actions on other fronts. Obstruction and blocking are becoming almost the norm for the Russian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group. The aforementioned negotiation process is taking place against the backdrop of the harsh reality of Russia’s ongoing aggression. Russia is showing disrespect for the principles and norms of international law.”

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  6. “Ukraine also increased the level of representation in the Trilateral Contact Group by including senior Government officials and heads of parliamentary committees, as well as prominent representatives of the public from among the internally displaced persons in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. As you can see, just a cursory listing of some of the main steps we have taken together with our partners over the past 12 months is indicative of Ukraine’s concrete efforts to resolve the situation in Donbas. Unfortunately, Russia has not reciprocated those efforts. On the contrary, the number of ceasefire violations by Russian illegal armed groups increased significantly in January and February, leading to new combat casualties among Ukrainian servicemen.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  7. “In December 2019 and April 2020, we agreed on the mutual release of detainees and were able to release many of our nationals from captivity. Ukraine has endorsed, ad referendum, the Trilateral Contact Group framework agreement on mine action, as well as the finalized demining plan for the 19 agreed areas. The Russian side refuses, under various pretexts, to complete the demining work there, as well as in the four new disengagement sites. On the humanitarian track, two new entry-exit checkpoints, in Zolote and Shchastia in the Luhansk region, were finally opened on 10 November 2020. Unfortunately, their functioning was interrupted from day one by the occupying Government of the Russian Federation.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  8. “Ukraine initiated a permanent — 24/7 — consultation format within the Trilateral Contact Group after the COVID-19 pandemic started. We know that the situation with regard to COVID-19 in the occupied territories is very difficult and that Ukrainians are suffering because of the occupying Government’s failure to provide the necessary health services. Ukraine has extended for another year — until 31 December 2021 — the law on the special status of local self-governance in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. At the initiative of the Ukrainian delegation, a plan of joint steps aimed at the implementation of the Minsk agreement was presented to the Trilateral Contact Group. That document contains practical proposals aimed at ending the conflict and is fully in line with the letter and spirit of the Minsk agreements.”

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  9. “I want to stress that many of those steps would not have been possible without the support, both bilateral and multilateral, of our partners, including at the United Nations. As already mentioned by some members of the Council, on 9 December 2019 the leaders of the Normandy Four adopted a number of important measures to be implemented by the parties to the conflict. The Secretary-General’s call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was also important. Ukraine was one of the first countries in the world to support it, for obvious reasons. And I ask you, Ms. DiCarlo, to convey my gratitude to the Secretary-General. What has been done in practice? We have been able to agree on the completion of the disengagement in three pilot sites. We have initiated four new disengagement sites.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source

  10. “I thank you, Madam President, for the opportunity to participate in this debate on an issue of great importance to my country and, I think, to the security of Europe. I also thank the briefers and members of the Security Council who expressed support for Ukraine and provided an assessment of developments related to Russian aggression. That assessment makes it clear that the Kremlin has not decided to definitively put an end to the conflict. The aggression continues. People are dying. The suffering of civilians is intensifying. My task today is to present first-hand information on the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Allow me to briefly review the dynamics of the situation. Ukraine is taking practical steps to resolve the conflict and overcome Russia’s opposition to the negotiation process.”

    2021-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/159 (2021) · source