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OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmidt and the chairman of the organization, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, announced yesterday that the OSCE has started the process of closing the office of the project coordinator based in Ukraine.
According to them, the OSCE is forced to take such a step because of the position of the Russian Federation.< /p>
“Unfortunately, there was no agreement on extending the mandate to continue our work that we have been doing for 23 years, because of Russia's position,” said Rau.< /p>
Recall that the Special Monitoring Mission The OSCE began its activities in Ukraine in 2014. At the end of March, due to the attitude of the Russian Federation, the current mandate of the mission was not extended. About 500 SMM monitors were evacuated from Ukraine after the start of JMD.