Donetsk - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) plans to expand its monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine by deploying up to 500 monitors there, including 350 in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, deputy chief of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug told journalists.
The conflicting parties have managed to discuss each other’s demands in an open dialogue, Hug said.
The OSCE has repeatedly expressed concerns about the way the Minsk agreements were being implemented, but now the conflicting parties are sitting at a negotiating table and trying to find a solution, he said.
The participants in a meeting between representatives of the Ukrainian government forces, militias, and OSCE in Donetsk agreed to continue this dialogue at a new meeting in the near future, he said.
