US outraged by Russia's blocking expansion of OSCE SMM to Ukraine
Ukrinform
KYIV, September 18 /Ukrinform/. The Washington condemns the Russia's decision to once again block expansion of the OSCE monitoring mission on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
U.S. Permanent Representative to the OSCE Ambassador Daniel Baer said this at the meeting in Vienna, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"The United States deeply regrets that the Russian Federation continues blocking the decision on the geographical expansion of the monitoring mission in spite of clear, strong and sustained support from the other participating countries," Baer said.
The U.S. Permanent Representative to the OSCE described Russia's actions as "inappropriate." He said that now the mission would still "be deprived of the opportunity to determine whether Russia is involved in or facilitates the illegal flow of arms, finance and personnel in support of the separatists in eastern Ukraine."
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