Moscow welcomes the decision of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Permanent Council to place 16 monitors at the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border for three months and expects them to arrive as soon as possible, the Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department said in a statement.
“We expect OSCE monitors to arrive to the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints as quickly as possible. We hope their objective monitoring of the situation at the Russian-Ukrainian border will help bring information to the global community and create favorable conditions to stop armed resistance in eastern Ukraine as soon as possible,” the document said,
“The stance of Ukraine, the United States and Canada, manifested during according the OSCE draft decision,” is regrettable, the Foreign Ministry said.
“We are glad that in the end common sense won and the decisions was made unanimously,” the statement said.
