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M0SCOW - The process of adjusting technical parameters of an OSCE monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine is underway, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said.

“Our experts have already set off to Vienna. A complicated process of adjusting technical parameters of the mission is on. It includes a vast range of issues: how many drones and from what countries, how many military or civil experts will work, how those drones and personnel will be guarded,” Karasin told Interfax on Oct. 21.

Asked when a mandate to observers may be issued, Karasin said: “Everything will be solved one of these days, soon.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the wake of multilateral talks as part of the ASEM summit in Milan that Russia will take part in the OSCE drone monitoring mission on the separation line in Ukraine.

Participants of the contact group on Ukraine signed in Minsk on September 20 a memorandum providing for the non-use of force by the conflicting parties in southeastern Ukraine.

The document in particular provides for the deployment of an OSCE monitoring mission in the buffer zone. The memorandum allows for drone flights of OSCE observers in the 30-mile buffer zone.