Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine will exceed the number of 600 observers by the end of October, said Last news on the last working day of the week Deputy head of the OSCE Alexander hug. With further increase of the mission must be attributed to the establishment of additional locations, most importantly within the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic, He added.
"we now have 570 observers, most of them in the East. Another 40 will arrive before 25 October, so we will be more than 600 is a decent number, " said hug in a conversation Last news . On the last working day of the week he held a series of meetings with commissioners of States parties to the OSCE, on which He requested them to continue to nominate candidates For the replenishment mission that is most important at the end of the year, when some of the observers left the mission.
in the last period, SMM has established forward bases For their patrols of up to 16 observers, each along the line of contact in Volnovakha and Novoaidar within the limits controlled by the government of Ukraine in Stakhanov Ukraine and within the controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic, said hug.
According to hug, is now the SMM in Eastern Ukraine base in Donetsk (DPR), Lugansk and Stakhanov (LPR), Mariupol, Volnovakha, and Kramatorsk, Novoaidar and Severodonetsk (the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government).
in the upcoming week Hg is planning to visit Donetsk and to hold dialogues with the self-proclaimed leadership DNR about placing bases within SMM, controlled by DND. Among the places where SMM is ready to be placed within DNR, Hg called Gorlovka, almanova and Enakievo.
"For us it is important that those who have the actual supervision on the ground, allowed us to expand geographically, because otherwise the extension (the mission) doesn't make sense," said hug. He added that at the meetings on the last working day of the week asked commissioners of the States parties of the OSCE to Express SMM support in this matter.
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