The Normandy Quartet leaders have supported Kyiv's proposal to send Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers to areas where breaches of a truce have been reported, the press service of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.
“The parties have endorsed the Ukrainian proposal to send OSCE observers to all locations with ceasefire violations, starting in ten localities: Schastia, Popasna, Stanytsia Luhanska, Krymske, Avdiyivka, Volnovakha, Hranitne, Shyrokyne and the Donetsk airport area,” the press service said following a March 2 phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Poroshenko.
The parties also reaffirmed the importance of ensuring the security of OSCE inspectors and allowing them to access all districts accommodating heavy weapons withdrawn from the line of contact, it said.
“The parties also agreed that the OSCE should publish daily reports detailing ceasefire violations to be forwarded to the Foreign Ministries of all Normandy format countries,” the Ukrainian president’s press service said.
Among other topics, the four leaders discussed deliveries of Ukrainian and international humanitarian aid to Donbas, the role the International Committee of the Red Cross should play in its distribution, as well as energy issues.
They agreed that their countries’ deputy foreign ministers would hold consultations on March 6 to discuss a possible peacekeeping mission in the south-east of Ukraine.
