BRUSSELS, November 11. /TASS/. EU leaders will discuss tapping someone to represent them at talks on Ukraine and explore what would be expected of this person at an emergency summit in Dublin on November 13, EUobserver reported.

"[European Council President Antonio] Costa has agreed to discuss the creation of a potential EU envoy for the peace process on Friday. This would be an initial debate about the structure and mandate of the role, <…> while aiming to leave the nomination of individual candidates until the next summit, in December," the news outlet quoted an EU source as saying. The future negotiator’s name will therefore not be announced on November 13.

EUobserver noted that after the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, the EU’s technological sovereignty will struggle to hold leaders’ attention at the upcoming summit, as they are concerned about how to respond to the "US-led push."

A TASS source in Brussels previously said the EU had yet to hold any substantive discussions about a potential candidate for talks with Russia. All speculation on the matter came from the media and had no basis in actual talks. The source noted that the EU currently has "no negotiator, no mandate for talks and no negotiating position that includes possible compromises." That was among the reasons why the EU was left out of the negotiating process.