OSCE to propose to signatories of Geneva statement roadmap on Ukraine in next few hours

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Source: Interfax Ukraine

The OSCE will propose to the parties in the multi-party negotiations on the crisis in Ukraine held in Geneva "a roadmap" for resolving the crisis, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter said.

Burkhalter said after meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the OSCE would like to propose a roadmap outlining specific steps to resolve the crisis to the four signatories of the Geneva agreements in the next few hours.

Switzerland now chairs the OSCE.

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OSCE head urges all sides to demand end to violence in Ukraine

The OSCE chair said they were suggesting a more pragmatic step - a four-item action plan offered for consideration to the four signatories to the Geneva agreements - to know which items were points of consent and which might need adjustment for their soonest implementation.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is offering to set up a fund to finance the implementation of a proposed disarmament plan in Ukraine, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter announced at a joint news conference on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As regards a proposed pan-national dialogue in Ukraine to precede with the planned presidential election on May 25, Burkhalter said the OSCE is suggesting a series of roundtables and discussions between officials, politicians and activists in central Ukraine and the provinces as the starting point of a pan-national discussion.

He argued that proposals for the decentralization of government and security issues should be the main items on the agenda. He confirmed that the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights would send up to 1,000 observers to the presidential polls.

Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_07/OSCE-head-urges-all-sides-to-demand-end-to-violence-in-Ukraine-1119/