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The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The SMM continued to observe a significant number of ceasefire violations in and around Donetsk and Donetsk airport. The SMM continued to be unable to travel to Avdiivka, Shyrokyne and certain other locations in “DPR”-controlled areas due to security considerations...

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations.* The SMM observed a continuing increase in the number of ceasefire violations in and around Donetsk airport. The SMM remained unable to travel to Shyrokyne due to security considerations. The SMM observed discrepancies of recorded heavy weapons at a number of Ukrainian Armed Forces, “DPR” and “LPR” holding areas...

VIENNA, 30 May 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will visit Azerbaijan on 1 June 2015. He will meet President Ilham Aliyev, Speaker of Parliament Ogtay Asadov and Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov, as well as members of leading political parties, and visit the OSCE Project Co-ordinator’s Office in Baku...

VIENNA, 30 May 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will visit Georgia on 2 June 2015. He will meet President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tamar Beruchashvili, as well as members of leading political parties...

VIENNA, 30 May 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will visit Armenia on 3 June 2015. He will meet President Serzh Sargsyan, Speaker of Parliament Galust Sahakyan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian, as well as members of leading political parties, and visit the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed an increased number of ceasefire violations in areas around Donetsk airport, as compared to previous days. Due to security considerations, the SMM was unable to patrol in Shyrokyne. In “DPR”-controlled Petrivske, the presence of an unknown armed group was reported...

COPENHAGEN, 28 May 2015 – The OSCE needs a strengthened presence on the ground, closer co-operation with civil society and a rededication to human rights commitments to help realize its goal of achieving comprehensive security, said participants in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 seminar today in Belgrade. (PHOTOS available here.)...