Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NetherlandsPARIS, Feb 14, Anastasia Ivanova The Netherlands decided to recall five of its observers OSCE from eastern Ukraine, three remain in Kiev, Tessa van Staden, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom, confirmed to RIA Novosti. Earlier, the Dutch media reported that the Netherlands decided to take out five of its OSCE employees from eastern Ukraine.
The DPR responded to the withdrawal of the US and Britain staff from the OSCE mission «The Netherlands really decided to withdraw five OSCE staff from Ukraine. Three OSCE staff remain in Kiev,» a representative of the Dutch Foreign Ministry told the agency. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) began work March 21, 2014 in connection with the appeal of the Government of Ukraine to the OSCE and the consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States. As Vladislav Berdichevsky, a member of the People's Council of the self-proclaimed DPR, told RIA Novosti earlier, the American, British and Danish members of the mission, according to preliminary information, left the territory of the republic. >The OSCE SMM will continue to work in Ukraine, said the Secretary General of the organization. escalation of the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly says that no one is threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the US and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. from Donetsk
