Burkhalter speaks of OSCE readiness to establish contacts in relation to Ukraine roadmap
MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - The OSCE is ready to assume the coordination of operations in relation to the roadmap of settling the situation in Ukraine, Swiss President and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Didier Burkhalter has said.
Documents expressing the plan will be submitted to all four sides that signed the Geneva agreements in the next few hours, he said at a joint press conference with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow after their talks. He added that OSCE on its part is ready to assume coordination and the arrangement of related contacts.
He said that on Thursday the OSCE representative for Ukraine and the OSCE Secretary General would be in Kyiv. He said contacts with the United States were also planned.
Burkhalter said that in relation to this work he would travel to Brussels on Wednesday evening.
We are counting on political responsibility, the sense of political responsibility inherent in the leaders of all the four sides that signed the Geneva declaration and hope that all the measures stipulated by the concrete plan of action will be taken in the very nearest future, he said.