(MENAFN- QNA) - The Ukrainian Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has developed a mechanism to verify reports of alleged violations of a ceasefire in the east of Ukraine, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter said Sunday.
According to Russian news agency (ITAR-TASS), the mechanism will be finalized in cooperation with the sides within the next few hours and days, Burkhalter said.
He said discussions were underway on integrating as soon as possible national unmanned aerial vehicles as contributions by participating States into the monitoring disposition of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM).
Burkhalter said the SMM had redeployed in the past two days 59 specialists with experience in the monitoring of ceasefires and added that the SMM was now rapidly recruiting additional monitors.
He expressed his gratitude to participating States for their ongoing support of the SMM and called on them to help expand the mission rapidly by proposing candidates with relevant expertise and by contributing to the funding of this mission," the OSCE said in a statement on its website.
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