UN chief offers mediation on Ukraine crisis
Monday, 5 May 2014
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday offered his mediation to help end the escalating crisis in Ukraine. "I have been discussing this matter will all the parties concerned -- Ukranian leaders, leaders of the Russian federation, the European Union, and Americans," Ban told reporters in Abu Dhabi. "I am urging these four parties to solve this problem through peaceful means and I'm ready to provide my own role if necessary." An agreement to defuse the crisis was reached in Geneva on April 17. But Russia last week pronounced the accord dead after Kiev stepped up military operations against separatists that Moscow slammed as "war against its own people," according to AFP.