The increase of the OSCE mission in Ukraine will require a decision of the Permanent Council
The increase in the number of OSCE observers in Ukraine over five hundred people will require a new decision of the Permanent Council of the organization, said Last news spokesman of the Swiss chairmanship of the OSCE Roland bless.
first it was rumored that the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appealed to the OSCE representatives with a request to increase the number of special observation mission to 1, 5 thousand people.
" You know that the mandate of the special observation mission implies the number of five hundred people. Without a doubt, Increase to one and a half thousand will require a decision of the Permanent Council. The usual procedure: political meeting, then, if there is a consensus, the decision ", - stated bless.
above the head of the special observation mission ertu?rul Apakan said that the number of observers should reach five hundred people over the next 2 months. Currently in Ukraine there are more than 250 of the OSCE observers.
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN on 3 October, the victims of the conflict were more than 3, 6 thousands of civilians, almost 8, 5 thousand were injured body. About the development of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine read in the chronicle Last news