The political component of the mandate of the Special monitoring of the OSCE mission in Ukraine to change will not, and the number of observers or assigned to them by specialists is able to be increased, said Tuesday Last news Russia's envoy to the OSCE Andrey Kelin.
As said Tuesday in Paris, French foreign Minister Laurent Fabius after a meeting of the foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the countries of the channel four called for the strengthening of the SMM and the increase of its mandate from the perspective of employees, equipment and additional charges.
"About the numbers Look depending on needs. There are various estimates. It will not require much debate. The mandate has political significance, the number here is not so important. If the problem increases, we do not exclude that it will require the population increase. We'll see How it goes, " said Kelin Last news on Tuesday.
He added that the meeting on a reasonably possible change in the number of SMM will be conducted in the context of discussions about the renewal of the mandate of the mission. The current Mandate of the mission Up to five hundred observers and is valid Till 21 March. Before this date the OSCE Permanent Council, decision-making by consensus of all 57 participating States of the organization must come to a consensus on the extension and a possible change in the mandate.
the press service of the OSCE Last news revealed on Tuesday that in the coming weeks have active meetings on these issues, the views of States parties on the possibility of increasing the number of observers varied. Last week Kelin said that there is no need to increase the number of observers, but were discussed obtaining new technical means, as well as among them, UAV, radar, satellite images, and web cameras. On Tuesday, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century, said in Paris that the Russian Federation supports the early adoption of the decision on extension of the mandate of the SMM.
Tuesday Kelin said Last news that the story is about increasing mission to an estimated 100 people, as long as it is not clear whether It will be observers or assigned to them by experts.
"There is a figure of the order of hundreds, not more than. Soon assumes the extension of the mandate, in this context, it will work. It all depends on the tasks that will be set before the mission. This is not, This means that the story is about the increase of 100 observers - It has the ability to increase support staff, professionals who will be assigned to the observers, " said Kelin.
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