Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The OSCE difficult to recruit people to increase the staff of the mission in Ukraine to thousands of people because of the security issues in the region, said EU Commissioner.
"The region needs to see a special OSCE monitoring mission, nearly the size of Switzerland, have seen her a few hundred people. They want to increase this number up to thousands, but it is difficult to recruit so many people because of the security conditions that are not very easy to make, " said EU Commissioner, who wished to remain anonymous, during the open day in ironsmith.
He said that in the field " a lot of shooting, explosions." Observers must not only pass, but also to speak with people on both sides, and arrange the positions in difficult areas and get access to the stockpiles of heavy weapons and check what type of weapons is, to make sure They're not translated, " said the European official.
In its decision of 12 March, the OSCE Permanent Council has increased the ceiling of the number of SMM to 1000 civilian observers.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.
The next meeting in Minsk has ended on Wednesday, may 6, on an optimistic note: the parties were able to form four working subgroups, to come to a common opinion about the following meetings and even specific issues. In the final statements, the participants refrained from mutual opponents and expressed hope for "making peace" in the Donbass.
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