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Council of Europe Hopes on Implementation of Putin’s Plan on Solving Ukrainian Crisis

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The Council of Europe welcomes the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to solve the Ukrainian crisis and hopes that his proposals will be implemented, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - The Council of Europe welcomes the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to solve the Ukrainian crisis and hopes that his proposals will be implemented, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland said on Thursday.

Answering a question on his attitude toward Putin's peaceful regulation plan, Jagland told journalists, that it is good that such an initiative has been proposed and he expressed hope that the plan’s implementation would lead to positive results.

On Thursday, General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland had a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during which the European politician acknowledged that human rights violations in Ukraine pose a challenge to Strasbourg.

On Wednesday, the Russian president presented a seven-point plan to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, urging Kiev to withdraw its troops from the country’s southeastern regions and calling on the militia to cease its military advance.

The plan also presupposes the participation of an international monitoring force, the establishment of a humanitarian corridor, a ban on the use of combat aircraft over urban areas, the exchange of prisoners in an "all for all" formula and direct access to destroyed infrastructure for repair crews in the country's war-torn areas.

Kiev has been conducting a military operation in eastern Ukraine since mid-April. According to the latest figures released by the United Nations, more than one million people have been displaced by the Ukrainian conflict, 814,000 of them fleeing across the border to Russia.

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