Section: OSCE (EU)
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 13 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). A Grad rocket exploded near a civilian bus at a Ukrainian Army Checkpoint near Volnovakha, killing 12 civilians and injuring...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, 14 January 2015: 12 civilians killed and 17 wounded when a rocket exploded close to a civilian bus near Volnovakha
At approximately 14:35hrs on 13 January the regional traffic police confirmed to the SMM that a Grad rocket struck close to a civilian bus when it stopped at a Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint approximately 2km north of Volnovakha (35km south-west of Donetsk). The SMM arrived at the location of the incident at 17:45hrs and witnessed the removal...
OSCE supports Ukraine in combatting environmental crimes at the border
Andrii Dziubenko Representatives of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, on 25 December 2014, handed over to the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine a series of informative posters and training materials on enhancing environmental controls at border...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 7 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows decreased significantly at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The OM continued to observe a number of persons in military-style clothing crossing...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office strongly condemns deadly attack on bus in eastern Ukraine, urges immediate ceasefire
BELGRADE, 14 January 2015 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister IvicaDačič today strongly condemned yesterday’s deadly incident in which several people were killed and wounded on a bus near a government-controlled checkpoint in Buhas, eastern Ukraine. “I condemn in the strongest terms this attack on...
OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine calls upon all sides to exercise maximum restraint in eastern Ukraine
KYIV, 13 January 2015 – The Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, today called upon all sides to exercise maximum restraint in eastern Ukraine. Over the past 24 hours the situation has significantly deteriorated, especially near the Donetsk airport; more civilian casualties have been...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 12 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). According to the JCCC a significant increase of ceasefire violations was witnessed. The SMM, while monitoring the JCCC first...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 11 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM witnessed multiple instances of both incoming and outgoing shelling in areas of Donetsk city adjacent to the airport....
All participants of Panel on European Security as a Common Project confirmed
BELGRADE, 12 January 2015 – Ivica Dačić, Serbian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, and his Troika partners Didier Burkhalter and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the respective foreign ministers of Switzerland and Germany, announced today that the composition of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project...
New OSCE Chairperson, Serbian Foreign Minister Dačić to present priorities in Vienna on Thursday
VIENNA, 12 January 2015 – The new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, will outline the Serbian Chairmanship’s priorities to the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, 15 January in Vienna. Serbia took over the Chairmanship of the Organization on 1 January 2015 from Switzerland. During its Chairmanship Serbia will...
