Ukraine calls on OSCE to create new TCG’s working group over border control

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk made a corresponding statement at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on February 6, an Ukrinform own correspondent reported.

“More than 400 kilometres of the border are currently controlled by Russia from one side and its armed formations in Donbas from another side. Its transfer to the Ukrainian side cannot be achieved overnight, it must be prepared well in advance. In this regard, we reiterate the importance of the establishment of a new TCG Working Group on the restoration of control of the border by the Government of Ukraine,” Tsymbaliuk told Heidi Grau, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group.

He added that “violence in Donbas will stop only when Ukraine regains its control of the border with Russia and illegal supplies of weapons, manpower and ammunition are disrupted.”

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