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Common security only way to resolve Russia-Ukraine dispute: Analyst

Tuesday, 12 September 2017 1:37 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 12 September 2017 2:33 PM ]

People walk past the tanks of pro-Russian forces during a rehearsal of Victory Day parade in the center of Donetsk on May 3, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

An analyst says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for an increased presence of UN peacekeepers in Ukraine is “a great move in the right direction.”

A vision of the future is needed to resolve the current differences between Russia and Ukraine, and “there is only one solution and it is common security not confrontation,” Jan Oberg told Press TV on Tuesday.

“The only way to solve this problem and work towards peace not just stopping war and military activity and having a ceasefire, the work towards peace and reconciliation between the two countries, would be at large United Nations’ peace-building mission as it was done brilliantly in Croatia and Bosnia,” the founder of transatlantic.org said.

Kiev along with the United States and a number of NATO member states are holding joint war games in the western Ukrainian city of Yavoriv. Moscow has signaled its opposition to such drills.