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RF UN ambassador: Russia to urge to stop violence in Ukraineâ€™s southeast

02 May 2014 21:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Russia will urge to stop violence in Ukraine’s southeastern regions at an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which is opening here on Friday, Russian Permanent Representative at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told journalists, APA reports quoting Itar-Tass.

“We shall urge to stop violence,” he said, heading to the meeting.

According to his words, Kiev’s authorities have killed the last hope for viability of the Geneva accords of April 17 on the crisis settlement in Ukraine.

“The Kiev regime, encouraged by its Western sponsors, has resorted to a large-scale use of military force, actually killing the last hope for viability of the Geneva accords,” he said at an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations Security Council convened at Russia’s initiative over the punitive operation staged by the Ukrainian authorities in the southeast Ukraine.