Angelina Timofeeva. The OSCE plays a key role in resolving the fall in Ukraine, said on the first day of the week the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking in the form of a guest of honor at the Symposium ambassadors in Switzerland. "because of the obligations of Switzerland, the OSCE in the process of the Swiss chairmanship in 2014 took on their own shoulders leading role in the settlement of the Ukrainian fall," said Steinmeier, adding that progress in foreign policy " requires patience and perseverance ". The Minister quoted the website of the German foreign Ministry. the foreign Minister of Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein held a meeting on Sunday in the Swiss city of neuch?tel, the results of which adopted a Declaration on the role of the OSCE in the European Union. In the Declaration, for example, indicates that the participants " closely support the OSCE's efforts in the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine and jointly support the work of the international observer mission, the trilateral Contact group and 4 working groups." The document stresses that the parties have plans "and in the future tightly cooperating on issues of security and political decentralization, and similarly in the humanitarian and economic themes" Ukrainian settlement." The crisis in Ukraine most clearly showed that need strengthening instruments of the OSCE to resolve the conflict ", - is reported in the Declaration. The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of the special status " of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".