17:00 14.05.2018

All OSCE documents presuppose Crimea, Donbas are part of Ukraine - OSCE PA president

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All OSCE documents presuppose Crimea, Donbas are part of Ukraine - OSCE PA president

 All OSCE documents imply that Crimea and Donbas are part of Ukraine, even if it is not specified in a resolution, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly George Tsereteli has said.

"We never put a question mark on the status of Crimea. In every resolution and statement, we are supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity with Crimea, as the international community agreed. In this particular document, as we know, and we also had a discussion on that, they referred to a previous document, which was [published] before, so I think it doesn't mean that anybody questions the status of Crimea," Tsereteli said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday, when asked to comment on a statement by First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko that the OSCE/ODIHR, in its report on the presidential election in Russia, mentioned nothing about the falsification of the election in Crimea.

According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, this opinion was also supported by OSCE PA Special Representative for Eastern Europe Kent Harstedt.

"I was the special coordinator for this election in this country on October 26, 2014, and, of course, when we are here talking about this country, including Donbas and Crimea, that's for the special report about the election of this country, when the election in Russia should not be related to Crimea or Donbas. It's quite clear, of course," Harstedt said.

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