The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the decision of the Council of the OSCE on the extension of the mandate of the SMM
The Ukrainian foreign Ministry welcomes the Decision of the OSCE Permanent Council on the renewal of the mandate of the Special monitoring mission in Ukraine.
The OSCE permanent Council adopted on Thursday a Decision to extend the mandate of the Special monitoring of the OSCE mission in Ukraine until March 31, 2016 and to increase the maximum possible number of observers to thousands of people.
"The foreign Ministry welcomes the approval of March 12, 2015 Permanent Council of the OSCE report on the extension of the mandate of the Special monitoring of the OSCE mission in Ukraine until 31 March 2016, According to the request of the government of Ukraine ", - reported in the explanatory notes, available on the Internet representation of the Ukrainian Ministry in the night on Friday.
Hmm OSCE was established on March 21, 2014 with the highest number in five hundred observers, who must be located in 10 cities of Ukraine. The OSCE reported that to date, the mission has exceeded the number of 400 observers, of which 350 observers working in the East of Ukraine, where they have duties to monitor the cease-fire and verification of the withdrawal of heavy weapons.
The main discussion at the final stage consisted in the payment hmm. In the decision of the Permanent Council reported that 65 million euros are required to enroll in the budget SMM from the regular budget field operations OSCE consisting of assessed contributions of States parties, the rest of the budget should be financed from voluntary contributions. The total budget SMM above was estimated at about $ 85 million. A source in the OSCE said Last news that the essence of the debate over the payment of the OSCE lies in the fact that with increasing responsibilities for SMM arising from Minsk agreements should increase the share of payment SMM through voluntary donations countries.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people.