WASHINGTON, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - UN Security Council condemns killing of the Red Cross Committee's employee and calls for an objective and thorough investigation of the case, Security Council press statement issued early Saturday morning reads.
"The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the killing of a staff member of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Mr. Laurent DuPasquier, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 2 October 2014 as a result of a shell landing near the ICRC premises," Security Council announced.
"The members of the Security Council stressed the need to conduct an objective and thorough investigation into this tragic death," Security Council added.
Late Thursday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that one of its delegates to Ukraine, Swiss citizen Laurent DuPasquier, was among the victims of the heavy artillery bombardment of central Donetsk.
Moscow condemned the incident as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and insisted on an objective and thorough investigation into the matter.
Ukraine has been engulfed in a violent internal conflict since mid-April, when Kiev began its military operation against independence supporters in the southeastern regions of the country.
The sides agreed on a ceasefire at a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine held in Minsk on September 5. Another meeting of the Contact Group on September 19 resulted in a memorandum, specifying the implementation of the ceasefire and stipulating the creation of a 30-kilometer (18-mile) buffer zone, withdrawal of all heavy weapons from residential areas and the deployment of monitoring mission from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in southeastern Ukraine.
Since the establishment of the ceasefire regime, the conflicting sides have repeatedly accused each other of violating the agreement. However, the OSCE stated that the truce was generally holding.
