Contents tagged with OSCE mission

  • President of Ukraine asks head of OSCE to deploy police mission in the Donbas

    During a meeting with Sebastian Kurz, acting chairman of the OSCE and Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign affairs, President Petro Poroshenko called for discussion to be initiated in Vienna regarding the deployment of an armed OSCE police mission to the Donbas, as reported on the president’s website.

    Special attention was given to the increase in incidences of OSCE observer intimidation by the pro-Russian separatists. The Ukrainian President pointed out that the …

  • Kyiv is dissatisfied with the composition of the OSCE mission

    Ukraine insists on improving the monitoring procedure by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, in particular, regarding the representation of the parties, as was stated by the representative of Ukraine to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Iryna Herashchenko, as reported by Ukrinform.

    "Ukraine insists on the need to improve the monitoring procedure itself. The current representation of the mission is not normal. In one year the number of mission representatives from …