OSCE must work to keep Ukaine conflict in focus - Kurtz

Record ID: 164762

  • Title: OSCE must work to keep Ukaine conflict in focus - Kurtz
  • Date: 17th January 2017
  • Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (JANUARY 17, 2017) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, PAVLO KLIMKIN, SHAKING HANDS WITH KURTZ VARIOUS OF TALKS BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND OSCE DELEGATIONS KLIMKIN AND KURTZ TALKING TO MEDIA SOUNDBITE (German) AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND OSCE CHAIRMAN, SEBASTIAN KURTZ SAYING: "We all know that there is no quick and easy solution. But it is nevertheless necessary that the conflict in and about eastern Ukraine stays in focus. And that we as OSCE try at least step by step to ensure a positive dynamic." REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN SOUNDBITE (German) AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND OSCE CHAIRMAN, SEBASTIAN KURTZ SAYING: "The better the access the (OSCE) mission gets, the better the ways of controlling, the more security there will be. Even if we are far from reaching all our goals, many of us agree on the fact that the mission improved the situation." REPORTERS SOUNDBITE (German) AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND OSCE CHAIRMAN, SEBASTIAN KURTZ, SAYING: "It is our first priority to enlarge the mission, to provide better technical support and do everything possible to get better access and the observers really can do their job. I believe that this is an important step to provide better security for the people." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN KLIMKIN AND KURTZ SHAKING HANDS AND LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 31st January 2017 17:10
  • Keywords: Ukraine crisis OSCE
  • Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • City: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0025ZGY9FD
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz said on Tuesday (January 17) the organisation needs to keep focused on the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
    "We all know that there is no quick and easy solution. But it is nevertheless necessary that the conflict in and about eastern Ukraine stays in focus," Kurtz said after meeting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev.
    "It is our first priority to enlarge the mission, to provide better technical support and do everything possible to get better access and the observers really can do their job. I believe that this is an important step to provide better security for the people," added.
    The OSCE mission in Ukraine operates mostly in two rebel-controlled regions in the east where, the Minsk peace agreements, it is responsible for monitoring a ceasefire between separatist and Ukrainian government forces.
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