DONETSK, Ukraine: More than 5,000 people rallied Friday in Donetsk, the main base of pro-Russian insurgents in east Ukraine, to protest the presence of OSCE monitors in the war-ravaged region.
The demonstration was the latest in a series of rallies organized by pro-Moscow rebels against the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—a post-Cold War body created to maintain peace on the continent.
The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has 580 unarmed staff based in the conflict zone and recently had its mandate extended to the end of March 2017.
The OSCE decided in March 2014 to send an unarmed civilian monitoring …read more
Source: The Manila Times
