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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on March 17 that Ukraine would like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to send "maximum numbers" of monitors to the country to provide information that might help "defuse tensions" in its southern and eastern regions, the government press service said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on
March 17 that Ukraine would like the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to send “maximum numbers” of monitors to
the country to provide information that might help “defuse tensions” in
its southern and eastern regions, the government press service said.

“Ukraine reaffirmed its readiness to accept maximum numbers of OSCE
representatives so that, having the opportunity to familiarize
themselves with the situation in the provinces, they help carry out a
set of measures to defuse tensions,” the press service of Ukraine’s
government said in a report on a meeting in Kyiv between Yatseniuk and
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Tim Guldimann.

Yatseniuk said Ukraine remains loyal to the OSCE principles and urged
the organization’s other member countries to stick to the postulates of
the Helsinki Final Act, its founding document.