[CYPRUS TIMES] Ukraine crisis: UN fears risk of "greater conflict". The next few hours are crucial.

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"The next hours and days will be crucial. The risk of a major conflict is real and must be avoided at all costs," she added at the opening of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the Ukrainian crisis, convened at the request of mainly Western member states

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary Dicarlo, expressed the organization's "regret" over Russia's decision to recognize the independence of the breakaway People's Republics of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists and the "order to deploy Russian troops in eastern Ukraine."

"The next hours and days will be crucial. The risk of a major conflict is real and must be avoided at all costs," he added at the opening of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the Ukrainian crisis, convened at the request of mainly Western member states.

The United Nations is committed to defending Ukraine's national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity within the limits of international law, as well as its internationally recognized borders, she added.

Source: APE-MPA

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