OSCE invited Russia to monitor Ukrainian presidential election

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Jan. 18, 2019 at 2:35 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2R), accompanied by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (3R), meets with John Bolton (3L), National Security Adviser to the US President, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Oct. 23, 2018.

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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that the OSCE formally invited Russian observers to the mission monitoring the Ukrainian presidential election.

“We have received an invitation from the OSCE to send our observers to the [monitoring] mission. So, we have the invitation,” Lavrov told the press on Friday.