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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has not yet determined the conditions for its armed mission’s work in Donbas, but this should be a police mission, and its members should be armed with standard-issue weapons, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

“In this case, this is in many aspects a question addressed to the OSCE, the organization where, by the way, the Germans are currently holding presidency. Because the organization itself has so far been unable to answer the question regarding possible conditions of this mission’s work and so on,” Peskov said in an interview shown in a Saturday news program hosted by Sergei Brilev on the Rossiya 1 (VGTRK) television channel.

This mission can be called “an OSCE police mission, but it should be understood that this implies OSCE representatives, namely monitors, armed with standard-issue weapons,” Peskov said.