OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Asks to Give the Accreditation to Russian Observers

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Miroslav Lajčák met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin ahead of discussion on Ukraine at the EU Foreign Affairs Council. OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák, during a meeting in Brussels with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Sunday, February 17, said that the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to provide Russian observers accreditation for the elections contradicted the principles and commitments of the OSCE participating States, said Boris Gandel, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, reports ria.ru. “The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajčák, on the eve of the EU Foreign Affairs Council met with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin in Brussels. Both diplomats discussed the current development of the situation in Ukraine and its neighborhood with an accent on the upcoming presidential elections in this country in March”, said Gandel. The foreign ministers of Slovakia and Ukraine also discussed the improvement of living conditions of the civilian population on both sides of the contact line in Donbass. Source: korrespondent.net