To increase the number of observers Special monitoring mission of the OSCE ought to provide greater access to areas in the East of Ukraine, said on the last working day of the week Last news Deputy head of SMM OSCE Alexander Hg.
under the mandate of the OSCE have the option to increase the number of observers up to a thousand people, not counting the other mission workers. Now only the monitoring of more than 800 people engaged in the mission of 516 people.
"To increase this part (the mission) to one thousand, we ought to have access to all areas of Eastern Ukraine. We can't work on a whole area on the border line with Russia, throughout the part between the Russian Federation and the Lugansk region, systematically excluded from these areas. So, if We could get there, We could hire more people, but now they (already existing observers - ed.) do not have the opportunity to work. So We increase the number of people, only if the parties provide us with anywhere access, " said hug.
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