The Council extended the mandate of the OSCE mission on the border of Russia for 3 months
The OSCE permanent Council extended on Thursday the mission's mandate observations at the Russian items in the " Donetsk " and " Gukovo " to 24 March 2015.
" There is a solution, the mandate was extended for a period of 3 months in the same volume - 22 observer ", - told reporters the employee of the press service of the OSCE Julia Samus.
before the mandate of the observation mission of the OSCE has been extended for a period of one month, most importantly because of the desire of Ukraine, USA, Canada and a number of other OSCE member States to make wider mandate to other Russian border and to allow observers to Move between them. Russia stated that the reasons goodwill ready to extend the mandate of 2 porepunkah - " Donetsk " and " Gukovo ", but not ready for its extension. Russia also proposed to extend the mandate for a period of 3 months.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.