Russia made a proposal to increase by fifteen people, the number of Russian citizens in the OSCE mission in Ukraine

Russia has made fifteen candidates to work in the increased of the OSCE mission in Ukraine, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov In..
"at the present time in this mission employs a little more than twenty Russian Residents, presumably fifteen candidates we presented, taking into account not so long ago the OSCE permanent Council decision on the enlargement of the size of the mission to a thousand people," Lavrov said at a press conference in Guatemala on Thursday, RIA " Novosti ". The Minister explained that the OSCE are long-standing rules of international missions and these rules exclude any discrimination on ethnic grounds, or on grounds of nationality "." When the Ukrainian government requested the OSCE with the application to deploy special monitoring mission, the Ukrainian authorities have consented to the use of these rules and principles, " Lavrov said. On Wednesday held in Paris soveshenee of policydirector "channel four" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France) in Ukraine. In the process of negotiations Kiev agreed to the formation of 4 additional contact groups to resolve conflict situations in the Donbass. However, the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadym prystaiko said that Kiev did not wish to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. Along with this, the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin said that Among the commissioners "channel four" the prevailing view is that Kiev is obliged to take into account the position of the DNR and LC. As first reported by the print edition VIEW, the overwhelming number of members of the OSCE mission in Ukraine are Americans." At the moment we have more than 400 observers in Ukraine, more precisely, from 430 to five hundred people. 350-375 staff, I.e. Two-thirds of all SMM OSCE work in the Southeast. About 50% of observers is ex-military. Most to Ukraine worked in peacekeeping missions of the OSCE in the other countries, " he told the newspaper VIEW official authorized SMM Michael Bociurkiw. There are Authorized more than 40 countries." Commissioners of any country does not exceed 10% of the total number of employees of the mission, " drew attention Bociurkiw. If we proceed from the official data, the commissioners of the U.S. in the Ukrainian mission to the maximum. Their 49 of the five hundred." Among mission personnel are a lot of former military investigators - that is, in the mission assembled citizens with extensive experience. In addition, most observers are experts on human rights issues, " said Bociurkiw. According to his statement, observers quite a lot of Russian-speaking experts - one in eight.


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