The OSCE monitoring mission will start to work in full force in eastern Ukraine after the military activities stop and the control of the border is restored, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has said.
Once peace is established and the control of the international border is restored, the OSCE mission will conduct its monitoring to the full extent, she said during a meeting with the leadership of the State Border Service of Ukraine on Wednesday during a visit to a mobile border detachment in Bortnychi, outside Kyiv.
She noted that the United States was working closely with the OSCE in order that the monitoring mission of the OSCE could work in full force. According to Nuland, the United States provided 70 observers, as well as equipment for the mission.
The mission has slowly started to pick up steam, the assistant state secretary said.
According to Nuland, the OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine were a civil mission so it could work where there were no hostilities.
