Moscow expressed outrage checks and threats of OSCE observers in Ukraine and urged Kiev to stop these actions and to strictly adhere to their international obligations.
in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation drew attention to the fact that in the reports of the Special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine more and more often describes the cases of inspection machines, inspection of documents and nationality of the observers of the OSCE Ukrainian military and volunteer forces. At the same time " near the end of March at the village Muratovo Luhansk region recorded case, when the Ukrainian military threatened that anyone caught there a Russian employee of the OSCE mission will be killed ", - is informed in the report of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
the Ministry said that " such incidents cause outrage and unacceptable in principle. Coherence in this issue of the Ukrainian military and volunteer forces leaves no doubt that the order of the checks OSCE observers comes from a single center. This clearly shows the true desires of its authors "." Such actions are a gross failures of the obligations of the Ukrainian authorities to maintain Security, immunities and freedom of movement of the observers Special monitoring mission of the OSCE. This prevents the execution of the mission's mandate and tasks to monitor the implementation of the Minsk agreements, which were approved by the leaders of the "Norman Quartet" and the resolution 2202 resolution of the UN security Council", added the Ministry. Moscow because of this persistently to persuade Kiev to stop the illegal inspections of the OSCE observers and strictly adhere to its international obligations, as well as among them regarding the Special monitoring mission. Let us also emphasize that before the press Secretary of the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE Michael Bociurkiw said in Dnepropetrovsk vehicle was seen with symbols of the OSCE, but not belonging to an international organization. In addition, the special OSCE monitoring mission in Eastern Ukraine said that the work of observers in the conflict are trying to limit " third parties ".

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