Slutsky: the idea of Kiev to exclude Russia from the OSCE SMM - " naked PR "
The proposal of Kiev about the exception of authorized Russia from the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE is "naked PR" without legal basis, said the head of the state Duma on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky.
"instead of addressing the real issues of Kyiv is working to" the public ". The proposal to exclude Russia from the OSCE mission in Donbas - naked PR without legal basis, " Slutsky wrote in his own microblog on Twitter.
first Deputy head of the main command center (a branch of the General staff of the Ukrainian military power Oleksandr Rozmaznin have initiative authorized to exclude Russia from the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE. He added that for this purpose it is necessary to recognize the Russian Federation as a party to the conflict in the Donbas.
Kiev believes that the Russian Federation intervenes in the Affairs of Ukraine is a party to the conflict in the Donbas. Russia denies it and calls such accusations are unacceptable. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to domestic conflict and is not privy to the events in the South-East, is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.
in mid-April, the Russian foreign Ministry has said that the Ukrainian authorities not only want to undermine the prestige of the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE, but also pose a direct threat to the lives of observers working in the conflict area. Review of the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs, Kiev claims to a special supervision over the activities of OSCE monitors working in Ukraine.