Section: OSCE (EU)
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 20 November 2014
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 activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). In Luhansk the SMM met with a former “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) member who said that there were six...
Correction: Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 19 November 2014
Correction: 15km W of Donetsk Military personnel shoot in the direction of an OSCE convoy near government-controlled Mariinka (15km W of Donetsk). 12:38hrs, an OSCE convoy composed of two vehicles was travelling east from Kurakhovo (30km W of Donetsk) towards the city of Donetsk. Near the area of Mariinka, about 80m ahead of the convoy, there was...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 19 November 2014
Military personnel shoot in the direction of an OSCE convoy near government-controlled Mariinka (15km E of Donetsk). 12:38hrs, an OSCE convoy composed of two vehicles was travelling east from Kurakhovo (30km W of Donetsk) towards the city of Donetsk. Near the area of Mariinka, about 80m ahead of the convoy, there was a flat-bed cargo truck...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 18 November 2014
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 activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). On 17 November the SMM met with the governor of Luhansk to discuss ways to facilitate relief activities in the village...
OSCE needs stronger institutions, focus on commitments, say participants in PA’s Helsinki +40 Washington seminar
COPENHAGEN, 19 November 2014 – The second leg of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 seminar series has concluded in Washington, with six current and former Assembly presidents, members of the U.S. Congress, diplomats, experts and academics considering how the OSCE can most effectively promote good transatlantic relations and...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 19 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. As mandated, the Observer Mission (OM) is operating 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows decreased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). Traffic flows changed again in that slightly more people left than entered the Russian...
Media briefing by Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine on Thursday in Kyiv
KYIV, 19 November 2014 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine will hold a media briefing in Kyiv, Thursday, 20 November 2014, at 13:00 local time, at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre, Hotel Ukraina, 3/F. Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the SMM, and Michael Bociurkiw, Mission Spokesperson, will talk about the...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 17 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to focus its observation on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. In Donetsk the SMM observed an armoured truck carrying an antiaircraft machine. On 16 November the SMM met the commander of the irregular armed group of the Cossack-controlled...
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Heidi Tagliavini, to address OSCE Permanent Council tomorrow
VIENNA, 19 November 2014 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini will address the OSCE Permanent Council, tomorrow, 20 November, 2014, at the Hofburg, Vienna. Tagliavini is a member of the Trilateral Contact Group, together with senior representatives of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. In...
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Austrian Defence Minister Klug visit training site of OSCE SMM Monitors
Vienna, 17 November 2014 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Austrian Defence Minister Gerald Klug will visit the Austrian armed forces Foreign Mission Base in Goetzendorf on Friday 21 November, to meet internationally recruited monitors who are receiving training before joining the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM)....
