Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes the OSCE has been facing a serious crisis in the past few years and must improve its credibility when it comes to preserving security it Europe. .

"In recent years, the OSCE has been in a deep crisis. Moscow is constantly criticizing its efficient structures - ODIHR (the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) and the HCNM (the Office of High Commissioner on National Minorities). The importance of these missions is decreasing, and budgets tend to be reduced," the foreign minister wrote in an article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Ukrainian version of which is posted on the ministry's Facebook page.

Klimkin Russia is trying to knock out candidates from the race for the HCNM and for the post of the media freedom representative.

"Russia today does not desire an efficient OSCE. It doesn't want an efficient monitoring mission in Ukraine. It does not want a police mission (working) on its border. It doesn't want OSCE observers in Russia-occupied Crimea...", Klimkin said.

Ukraine's foreign minister said the OSCE itself needs to prove its viability in the modern world.

"We should acknowledge there are only two options. The first is that we return to the 'spirit' of the OSCE and are not simply talking about its credibility, but building the structure of credibility based on the rules of the European security and are doing this quickly… The second is everyone will soon realize that security is a matter for individual countries, companies and citizens. If this happens, they will resort to any means, not always rational ones. Then we will face a war of all against all," Klimkin said.