Joint Cs of the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of the Secretary General and Head of Delegation of San Marino
In response to the security situation in eastern Ukraine and indications of military enhancements leading to deterioration due to an escalation of eastern Ukraine, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Swedish Margareta Cederfelt and the OSCE Secretary General of the OSCE Roberto Montella today expressed profound and reiterated the PA’s support for high-level dialogue. “We are extremely concerned about the continuing escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine, including reports of intensified bombing of civilian areas,” said President Cederfelt. “After seeing media reports of civilians fleeing the area and military mobilizations, we strongly urge that the parties refrain from provocative acts that could aggravate the crisis. The lives and future of the people living in the conflict-affected regions are the driving force behind our commitment to the efforts of the international community to resolve this crisis ”. “There is only one acceptable way around for resolving the crisis in and in Ukraine, and honest dialogue based on principles is shared by all parties to the Helsinki Final Act, including full respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. of all countries, “said SG Montella. “We urge to achieve diplomacy and the new commitment to resolve them by fully diverging the Minsk agreements in good faith. All necessary measures must be taken to avoid a large-scale war and to resolve the conflict that has already caused 14,000 victims in the Donbas region ”. Cederfelt and Montella reaffirmed the PA’s support for the diplomatic efforts of the Polish OSCE Chairmanship and urged the use of all OSCE tools for risk reduction, including the transparency-enhancing mechanisms of the OSCE Vienna Document and the Trilateral Contact Group. They also highlighted the role of parliamentary diplomacy and stated that the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly continues to facilitate dialogue. They reiterated the Assembly’s support for the work of more than 1,300 OSCE men and women serving in Ukraine to observe and report impartially and objectively on developments on the ground and to facilitate dialogue. They also reiterated the Assembly’s continued support for maintaining Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Disinformation and Propaganda Oscar Mina (San Marino) added that increasingly hostile and incendiary rhetoric detracts from diplomatic efforts to promote peace and stability. “I condemn the use of intimidation and disinformation campaigns and call on everyone to stop this propaganda at civilian expense.”
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