MOSCOW - The Kremlin insists on coordinating additional powers of the OSCE monitoring mission in Donbas with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.
“The question is about the contact line. It is important to gain consent of the militia, Donbas representatives. Perhaps, it will be necessary to agree on the mission’s configuration before formalizing any general understanding,” Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told the press on May 24, answering the question whether the Kremlin agreed, in principle, to the deployment of an armed OSCE police mission in southeastern Ukraine.
“There are lots of nuances, and the work will continue to specify those issues,” he said.
“This is precisely the question of the line of contact between the militia and the Ukrainian Armed Forces”, not control over the Russian-Ukrainian border, Peskov said.
“Everything about border control is written in the Minsk agreements, including the sequence of actions, and they are signed by the entire ‘Normandy Four’,” the presidential press secretary said.
