. Acting head of OSCE, Minister of foreign Affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak during a meeting on Sunday in Brussels with Ukrainian foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that the refusal of the authorities of Ukraine to invite Russian observers to the elections contrary to the principles and obligations of States parties to the OSCE, said Last news Press Secretary of the foreign Ministry of Slovakia Boris Handel.

"The current head of the OSCE and Minister for foreign Affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak, yesterday meeting of the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU met in Brussels with their Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin. Both politicians discussed the current situation in Ukraine and around it, with a focus on the upcoming March elections of the President of this state, " said Handel.

According to the envoy of foreign Affairs of Slovakia, lajä?ö?k said again Klimkin that the decision of Kiev authorities to exclude citizens of Russia among observers at the presidential elections did not meet the principles and commitments of States parties of the OSCE and asked his Ukrainian partner for Kyiv to reconsider the decision.

in addition, Lajcak during the meeting with Klimkin expressed concern about the rise of nationalism in the Ukraine, associated, and among them, with the glorification of the head of the OUN-UPA* (Banned in the Russian organization) of Stepan Bandera.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had adopted a law prohibiting representatives of Russia to work as observers on elections in Ukraine to be held on March 31. The Director of the OSCE ODIHR Ingibjorg, Solrun Gisladottir said that the non-admission of citizens of Russia on a mission to monitor the presidential elections in Ukraine is unprecedented and contrary to the obligations of all States-participants of OSCE.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov called unacceptable limits on workplace observers, noting, because this can reduce the level of legitimacy of the election.

* Banned in Russia as extremist organization



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