7 hours agoO SEU to ban eight-year monitoring mission in Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSBE), which has kept an observer mission in eastern Ukraine for years, announced yesterday that it would end the long-term deployment. Moscow one of the group members vetoed an extension of the mission. This is not an easy decision to make, [...]
Moscow one of the group members vetoed an extension of the mission.
“This is not an easy decision to make, but the position of the Russian Federation left us no choice but to take steps to close the mission”, O chairman said The SBE and Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.
“Mission played a crucial role in providing objective information on the ground, facilitating ceasefires and working to ease the effects of the conflict on the civilian population”.
O Monitoring Special Mission The SEU in Ukraine had been deployed since 2014, when conflict erupted for the first time between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed rebels. OSCE was the only international organisation that directly pursued conflict
