A Russian delegation at a meeting of the OSCE
ministerial conference in Belgrade has blocked the adoption of a declaration on
the activities of the special monitoring mission (SMM) in Ukraine, according to
the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
"OSCE Council of Ministers has finally
ended. Russia has blocked a number of documents. And most importantly a
declaration of activities of the SMM in Ukraine," the Ukrainian Foreign
Ministry's spokesperson Mariana Betsa wrote on Twitter in the early hours on
Saturday.
At the same time, she added that in the
concluding statement of the delegations "all Western partners condemn the
aggression of the Russian Federation, the illegal occupation of Crimea, and the
destabilization of Donbas."
According to the European Truth online
publication, the OSCE Ministerial Conference ended in Belgrade on Saturday
night with the adoption of several declarations, but the ministers failed to
agree on the final decision. This was reported at a press conference in
Belgrade, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the organization's
Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic.
"We have invested a lot of efforts to reach
consensus on a number of issues at this Ministerial Council. However, in some
of the cases this was not possible," Dacic said. In his words, they agreed
on declarations condemning terrorism, on drugs, combating extremism, as well as
a statement on the Transdniestrian process in the "5+2" format.
However, the decision on Ukraine was not
adopted.
The fact that the OSCE ministers had problems
with the adoption of the final decision on Ukraine was due to the atmosphere of
mistrust and divisions. They should start with reconciliation, Zannier said.
However, he believes that, despite the crisis in
the OSCE this format is necessary: He said that the most important decisions
were not the formal ones, but those passed on the sidelines of the meeting.
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