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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to work out jointly with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) cooperation mechanisms for the efficient work of monitors amid a more complicated situation in Donbas.

“The Ukrainian president has ordered the foreign minister to meet with the OSCE SMM and to work out cooperation mechanisms to establish efficient work of monitors despite attempts to intimidate them,” Poroshenko’s spokesman Sviatoslav Tseholko told Interfax-Ukraine.