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Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 27 January 2015
Publishing date: 28 January 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
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). In Donetsk the SMM observed damage caused by recent shelling. The SMM went to the border crossing points between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, Marynivka and Uspenka...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 26 January 2015
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
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). Russian Federation military officers and “LPR” and “DPR” members are still absent from the JCCC headquarters in Debaltseve.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo condemns violent protests
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 27 January 2015 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, has strongly condemned the violence that erupted today during the opposition protests which left dozens of police officers and protesters injured.
Press Release by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KRAKOW, 27 January 2015- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France) met with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov today in Krakow. The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, also participated in the meeting...
OSCE PA President calls on Russia to close border with Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 27 January 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today called on Russia to close its international border with Ukraine to help counter the alarming increase in violence in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić voices concern over recent developments on Armenian-Azerbaijani border and Line of Contact
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BELGRADE, 27 January 2014- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić expressed concern at recent developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the Line of Contact. “I would like to urge the sides to ensure a full ceasefire and cessation of hostilities as stipulated in the May 1994 agreement,” he said. “I deplore the upsurge in acts of violence resulting in loss of lives, and I call on the sides to demonstrate responsibility and avoid steps that would lead to further escalation...
Increase in violence in eastern Ukraine on agenda at OSCE Special Permanent Council
Publishing date: 26 January 2015
Collections: Serbian OSCE Chairmanship’s work in resolving the crisis in and around Ukraine, Kompilacija svih vesti i novosti o naporima predsedavanja Srbije ka rešavanju situacije u Ukrajini
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution