The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) revealed that it is attempting to secure the release of several personnel of the Special Observer Mission (SMM) who had been arrested in eastern Ukraine.
“The OSCE is very concerned that several members of the SMM national mission have been deprived of their liberty in Donetsk and Luhansk. The OSCE is using all available channels to facilitate the release of its staff,” said its press office in response to an inquiry, without giving further details.
British Deputy Ambassador to the Vienna-based OSCE Deirdre Brown criticized Russia for refusing to extend the SMM's mission in Ukraine beyond March. “And now we have received alarming reports that Russia's allies in Dombas are threatening mission personnel, equipment and facilities, and that Russian forces have taken SMM staff members prisoner,” Brown said in the speech, published by the British government.
The OSCE said in March that it had evacuated nearly 500 members of the international mission from Ukraine.
As of April 1, SMM has moved to an administrative role in ensuring the safety of mission members and assets throughout Ukraine, including in areas not under government control, the OSCE media office said on Saturday.
SMM continued to assist the remaining national staff in Ukraine to try to relocate to safer areas. “Contacts with national members of the mission continue daily, including to ascertain their whereabouts and to assist them, as far as possible, if they decide to relocate,” he added.
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