OSCE monitors meet with Sloviansk 'people's mayor'

09:38, 22.04.2014 1 min read

Members of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) visited Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, and met with the city's "people's mayor" Viacheslav Pomomariov.

The meeting continued for about two hours and addressed a number of issues concerning the situation in Sloviansk, the OSCE press service reported on Monday evening.

Among other matters, the sides discussed how Ponomariov and his supporters would abide by the April 17 Geneva agreements, the circumstance surrounding the detention of Sloviansk Mayor Nelia Shtepa and her current whereabouts, as well as the latest incidents in the city.

The OSCE mission said it would inform the organization's 57 member countries, including the signatories to the Geneva statement, of everything it saw and heard in Sloviansk.

On April 21, OSCE monitors were allowed to enter Sloviansk, where they were able to assess the ongoing situation and speak to local residents.