OSCE special meeting held on Ukrainian crisis

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today preparing conditions for a special meeting on the crisis in Ukraine, where it should send more observers to monitor a ceasefire agreement. 

The organization based in the capital and consists of 56 states, will double the number of specialists present at the Ukrainian southeast and move from current 260 to about 500, emphasizes this day an official statement. 


The special event will also address tomorrow everything related to the implementation of a 12-point plan agreed in Minsk this week to start a peace process in the southeastern Ukrainian Donetsk and Lugansk regions. 


Since last April, the, composed mostly of neofascist paramilitaries, army and National Guard make a bloody offensive in the regions, killing about two thousand 600 dead, mostly civilians, and more than 10,000 wounded. 

The arrangement to implement a truce yesterday including the granting of a special status of self-government to Donetsk and Lugansk, local elections in those two provinces and an exchange of prisoners at the beginning for each and everyone unconditionally. 

In addition, the output of all armed formations Donetsk and Lugansk demand, a point that the Federalists militants consider concerns the National Guard, which constitute illegal emphasizes a statement of the OSCE. 

The compromise also provides for the creation of a security zone under international supervision on the border between Ukraine and Russia, which ignores the right-wing government installed in Kiev, after a coup last February with support from neo-fascists. 

In tomorrow's meeting, the secretary general of the UN Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, and Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, presented two reports on the situation in Ukraine. 

Moscow denounced at the time the bias of other documents filed by human rights specialists UN tried to create a negative image of the actions of paramilitary groups in the Ukrainian southeast. 

The federalist militias advocate a higher status of the Russian language and sovereignty, among other demands.

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