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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 256/2019 issued on 29 October 2019
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Summary Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region. Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle near non-government-controlled Sentianivka. The SMM saw for the first time anti-tank
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chair in Ukraine and in Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Sajdik after regular Meeting of TCG in Minsk
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
MINSK, 29 October 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 29 October 2019...
Beginning of disengagement at Zolote disengagement area
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Shortly after 12:00 (Eastern European Time) on 29 October, the SMM observed the beginning of the disengagement process at the Zolote disengagement area. SMM patrols positioned both on the northern and southern edge of the area saw the launch of flares by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the armed formations, signaling both sides’ readiness to disengage...
Press Statement of Special Representative Sajdik on the occasion of the renewal of disengagement of forces and hardware in Zolote
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
MINSK, 29 October 2019 – In the course of the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and its working groups in Minsk on 29 October 2019, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the TCG, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 29 October 2019
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
Chief Prosecutor Brammertz meets OSCE Ambassador Kavalec
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), met with Kathleen Kavalec, the newly appointed Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 29 October 2019...
OSCE participates at regional conference of equality bodies hosted by Montenegrin Ombudsperson
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Maryse Daviet, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro participated in the opening of the fourth regional conference of equality bodies in South-Eastern Europe on 28 and 29 October 2019 in Podgorica. The conference was hosted by the Institution of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro...