联合国安理会将于13日晚就乌克兰局势举行紧急闭门磋商。

　　据悉，此次磋商是应俄罗斯常驻联合国代表团的请求召集举行。

　　本月6日，乌克兰东部顿涅茨克州、哈尔科夫州和卢甘斯克州的亲俄民众举行大规模抗议集会，提出在乌克兰实行联邦制等要求，并冲击和占领州政府大楼。乌克兰当局8日展开“反恐行动”，在东部一些地区驱散或逮捕示威者。目前部分政府建筑仍被抗议者占领。美国和乌克兰当局称乌东部局势动荡与俄罗斯有关，俄方对此予以否认，并称这是“嫁祸于人”。

　　联合国秘书长潘基文12日通过发言人发表声明，对乌克兰东部局势恶化深表忧虑，呼吁有关各方展开建设性对话以缓和局势。

　　UN Security Council opened an emergency meeting Sunday night in response to rising tensions ineastern Ukraine after pro-Russian militia seized government buildings there.

　　Joy Ogwu, the Nigerian permanent representative to the United Nations who holds the council'srotating chair for April, opened meeting here at around 8:05 p.m. EDT (0005 GMT Monday).

　　The meeting is open to press although Ogwu had said previously that the meeting would be heldbehind closed doors.

　　It is the 10th time that the 15-nation UN body met in a bid to address the Ukraine crisis sinceFebruary. The UN General Assembly took up the issue on March 27.

　　"Following close to two weeks of relative calm, starting on 6 April, armed individuals and separatistgroups began to seize government buildings and confiscate lethal weapons in the Donetsk Oblastof Ukraine, including in the cities of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkiv," Oscar Fernandez Taranco, theUN assistant secretary-general for political affairs, said in opening remarks at the meeting.

　　"It has now been reported that there have been at least five new cities in eastern Ukraine targetedby uprisings and seizures of government buildings in the last twenty-four hours, including thetowns of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka," he said.

　　"The situation is therefore now more combustible than ever," he said.

　　"The secretary-general and the United Nations remain committed to the pursuit of a peacefulsolution to this ever deepening crisis."

　　As the meeting was underway, Kiev declared the launch of a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" inthe eastern part of the country.

　　UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement issued here late Saturday, voiced his deepconcerns at the seriously deteriorating situation in eastern Ukraine and appealed to all sides to worktoward calming the situation there, which has the "growing potential" to spark violent clashes.(新华网)