and the osce. as well as the close correlation between field operations and human agencies on the ground have only strengthened to this partnership. the u.n. and osce must continue working together to advance peace, security, development and human rights that will contribute to international peace and stability. >> i think the representative of the united states for his statement. i give the floor to mexico. >> thank you very much. we express gratitude for the information provided by the fed. we also expressed gratitude for the information provided by the secretary-general. mexico shares the priority -- the priority identified regarding maintaining a people centrist -- centric focus. civilians are often the most affected. we support all efforts to prioritize, support those who are most vulnerable. the prevailing situation in ukraine as we have heard is critical. it is therefore disquieting to us that more than two weeks into the conflict, the security council has been unable to issue any statement

and osce. thank you. >> i thank the representative of ireland for statements and give the floor to the representative of india. >> thank you mr. president. let me begin by welcoming minister rau, i thank him for his briefing and his capacity as the chairperson in office. i also think rosemary dicarlo. the regional and sub regional organizations for maintenance of peace and security as well as cooperation with the united nations is in chapter eight of the u.n. charter. we support active engagement between the u.n. based on the framework for cooperation and coordination signed in 1993. these organizations are addressing challenges by promoting dialogue by exerting external influence. the agreement negotiation between the parties were lasting in these disputes. the osce has -- would make it the form of choice. the mechanism anchored in the systems of for inclusiveness and diverting goods in -- and investing in multilateralism, the challenges confronting the osce community come from different sourc

the entire osce presence in ukraine was pulled out.hat happened when, goodness knows, monitoring what is happening across front lines is so very important at this moment. well, stephen, the special monitoring mission was designed to be able to call out ceasefire violations and the deployment of prescribed heavy weapons, and if it was falling on the russian—controlled side of the line of contact, we wanted the world to know that it was russia that was responsible. and i think the osce monitoring mission, these are unarmed civilians, by the way, did a heroic job of doing just that. they let the world know that this aggression, that this war was unprovoked. it came from russia, it came from across the border. the ukrainians were peacefully in the same force posture they had been in for years. and so, it actually served its purpose. now there's a hot war on the ground, and we're into a different phase of this conflict and we need different tools and mechanisms to try to resolve it. right, but my organisation, the bbc, still has courageous

the entire osce presence in ukraine was pulled out.trolled side of the line of contact, we wanted the world to know that it was russia that was responsible. and i think the osce monitoring mission — these are unarmed civilians, by the way — did a heroic job of doing just that. they let the world know that this aggression, that this war was unprovoked. it came from russia, it came from across the border. the ukrainians were peacefully in the same force posture they had been in for years. and so, it actually served its purpose. now there's a hot war on the ground, and we're into a different phase of this conflict, and we need different tools and mechanisms to try to resolve it. right, but my organisation, the bbc, still has courageous staff on the ground, very close to the front lines, monitoring and reporting on what is going on. and we value that. i'm just wondering, what is the point of the osce if you can't maintain some sort of presence providing independent monitoring and verification of what is happening during this war. i notice

very interesting because until recently, the organization for security and cooperation in europe, osce the war between the ukrainian army and breakaway separatists they pulled out a few days ago and relocated in lviv. so i suspect that's where they might be. as you said, eight missile strikes or eight strikes on that peacekeeping centre, which doesn't bode well for the future at all. in terms of the mod briefing, as you said, they're probably moving north from mariupol, which has been completely surrounded and is being flattened and south from kharkiv. and what they're trying to do is cut off the remains of ukrainian armed forces who were in the east to fight the separatists. in addition to all these operational level encirclement of the various cities, this looks like a strategic encirclement to cut ukraine off from the sea. now, that could have a profound effect on any post—conflict settlement. whatever it is, even if the remnants of ukraine retain independence, then they'll be cut off from the sea. one of their main exports is wheat, of course, and that's a dry bulk cargo. and if th

i got the osce report from pineapple. e hmm that's not the one i'll come up with.his is what international organizations write, reports from the lugansk republic will see, and in the east , the russian peoples are very supportive. they hate americans and it is important for them that they consider our president. just like a freedom movement. every second, arab. he wants to go to ukraine and fight until the republic is completely liberated, the fighting continues, but the front line. available in in favor of the lugansk republic nikolai tolkachev azat atagonov gennady korneev to lead the lugansk people's republic an action of concerts in support of russian military personnel who take part in a special war operation in ukraine was held in syria by pupils and teachers of the center for the study of the russian language and culture, flourishing performed various songs. participation in the event in russian. in the city of jeblan. also, political figures, businessmen, ordinary residents of the city, after the concert, syrian children handed over letters for russian mili

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we've worked it in the osce but sadly agencies on any of those opportunities to move towards de-escalationand took the opposite path of conflict . we're now in a situation where we're still looking at diplomatic solutions. we're urging folks to sit down and if they can, bridge their differences and find some sort of political settlement. all the better. unfortunately what we hear from the russians often are a lot of claims that they're interested in a political settlement or they're interested in humanitarian corridors but honestly we haven't seen a lot of evidence yet that they're taking that seriously and in fact they continue as you noted to attack multiple cities across ukraine and in a way that all of us find to be deeply, deeply troubling so we will encourage folks to pursue a diplomatic course but we also have to ensure we understand that the russians sometimes say more than they'reactually willing to do . so we will keep a close watch on this. of course we want to see a peaceful so. that's what should be happening immediately and we urge the russians to stand down and find a diplomati

organizations on russia, and disguise as the medical postal services, even depressions of the un and the osce in ukraine at a meeting of the council security he said the russian ambassador. vasily is unbelievable. he called for a thorough investigation of all such cases. we cannot help expressing our concern over the continued seizure of vehicles, symbols, it is good for the secretariat of the armed forces of ukraine. finally, he admitted that the corresponding offense had taken place in kharkov and mariupol, by the way, from the publication on the internet it is clear that the cars of the dhl delivery company used to transport weapons were also in the hands of the armed forces of ukraine we cannot rule out that, under the guise of cars of these organizations or cars with medical symbols , the very weapons that the west so generously promised to kiev, also symbols, but of a banned battalion, could be imported to ukraine from border states. azov suddenly remembered the cnn channel in defiance. the current external political landmark of washington, the journalists of the television company wrot

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i got the osce report from pineapple. em.’t think of it, they write it, the international organization of the republic has not yet been completely liberated, the fighting continues, but the front line is changing in favor of the luhansk republic nikolai tolgachev azat atagonov gennady korneev vesti, lugansk people’s republic the russian defense ministry showed footage of the destruction of the grad multiple launch rocket systems of the armed forces of ukraine, the positions of the installations were carefully camouflaged, but they were detected from the air by drones of the grads themselves, and their ammunition was eliminated by precision weapons. another sea mine was found. today in the black sea. this time, about 70 km from the romanian coast, this was reported by the headquarters of the romanian navy. and the chernomorsky, many ammunitions that are used for obsolete ones, such as because of which they can break and drift during a storm, posing a threat to navigation, including in the boxford strait two days ago one of the

for which the diplomat no longer veiled noticed, cars of the osce and delivery services are used. republicans on the internet can be seen that in the hands of the armed forces of ukraine were cars of the dhl delivery company used to transport weapons, we cannot rule out that under the guise of cars of these organizations or cars with medical symbols , the very weapons that the west so generously promised to kiev can be imported to ukraine from abroad. i hope you understand how reputable damage. such a scenario would inflict damage on all international structures that hide the facts of such use of cars with their families. and further than urged the west to stop put out the fire of the ukrainian crisis with gasoline, supplying weapons to the kiev regime, as well as provoke an international food crisis and famine in a number of countries and not shift the blame for this to russia five people were killed in israel as a result of a shooting by an armed man, an attack was committed in the suburbs. tel aviv, the incident was filmed on your phone and the locals can be seen at home. there

here are all these osce helsinki groups, these fragments of what would have been soviet greatness arerunching under our feet, that is, it was the soviet union, precisely from a position of strength, that gave rise to and led a monstrous campaign of struggle. i rely on people for peace, good will is everything, as progressive humanity was called, the result of this was, the notorious detente you sing there. it is impossible to allow the peoples of the world to live under the threat of a nuclear war. and all this broke off about afghanistan, here in my hands is a book and the city of timurchik gaidar the death of the empire on the texture, which we will largely rely on further. and here's the chart, here's gaidar's story of the collapse of the soviet union, uh, summarized in a chart showing the monthly dynamics of oil prices between 1979 and 1991. actually, at a time when uh oil prices fell about 6 times a month, the calculations further developments were practically predetermined, in fact, the material economic basis of soviet success were ultra-high oil prices. even more precisely, th

i don't see active moves from osce, the red cross or council of europe. volunteers, civil societies and volunteers who are helping ukrainians. where are all the organisations that talk so much about human values and help during difficult times? eric schwartz is president of refugees international, and also former assistant us secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. i asked him for his response to the governor's criticism. i think you do have to make a distinction that there is a lot to what he says because the relief effort, the refugee response, outside of ukraine in neighbouring countries, ithink, it leaves reasons for encouragement. the european union has provided temporary protection directives so the millions of ukrainians crossing borders i think relatively speaking will be reasonably taken well care of. the real challenge will be in ukraine. the aid has to go in much more quickly and i don't want to sound offensive, but in fairness to the aid organisations, the international community and the humanitarian aid structure before the

i don't see active moves from osce, the red cross or council of europe.ers, civil societies and volunteers who are helping ukrainians. where are all the organisations that talk so much about human values and help during difficult times? eric schwartz is president of refugees international, and also former assistant us secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. he gave us his response to the governor's criticism. i think you do have to make a distinction that there is a lot to what he says because the relief effort, the refugee response, outside of ukraine in neighbouring countries, ithink, it leaves reasons for encouragement. the european union has provided temporary protection directives are the millions of ukrainians crossing borders i think relatively speaking will be reasonably taken well care of. the real challenge will be in ukraine. the aid has to go wean much more quickly and i don't want to sound offensive, but in fairness to the aid organisations, the international community and the humanitarian aid structure before the conflict

i got the osce reports from pineapple. eh, it's not something we'll come up with.ization. here are the reports from the luhansk republic will see in the east. and it is important for them, they consider our president. just like the liberation movement, every second is an arab. he wants to go to ukraine and fight the republic until it is completely liberated, the fighting continues, but the front line is changing in favor of the luhansk republic nikolai dolgachev azat from the atagons gennady korneev to lead. lugansk people's republic vladimir putin approved a number of important instructions following a meeting with the government, which took place on march 23. so, as a minus, together with the bank of russia and gazprom is vicious to transfer payments for natural gas supplies to the eu countries that have introduced restrictive measures into the russian ruble until march 31, the corresponding changes will be made to the current contracts. while maintaining the established volumes of supply of prices and principles in pricing. the president also instructed to adjus

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on the divisibility of security, which, among other things, were agreed within the framework of the oscelists. lavrov talked in the city of tong-si. today. the third ministerial conference is taking place there. the neighboring countries of afghanistan listened attentively to the speech of the participants pavel matveev the corners of the russian foreign ministry in the chinese city of tunisia there was no time to exhale the day before after a long flight , lavrov arrived in tunisia at 8:00 in the morning and went straight from the plane to the negotiating table, because of which he practically did not get up until 8:00 pm after holding five bilateral meetings with asian colleagues. today they met again in a wide format ministerial meeting on afghanistan, the conversation proceeded in a complex format , strictly speaking, there were three formats at once, at each new stage of the discussion new delegations joined. 10 ministers did not participate in the final stage. the conference. afghanistan's neighbors passes for the third time. the first took place last september, but that was via vi

i took the reports of the osce about the nation. em. it 's not the one i'm imagining.izations will see reports from the lugansk republic and in the east they are very much supported by the russian people. they hate americans and it is important for them that they consider our president. just like a freedom movement. every second, arab. he wants to go to ukraine and fight until the republic is completely liberated, the fighting continues, but the front line. changes in favor of the lugansk republic nikolai tolgachev azat atagonov gennady korneev lead lugansk people's republic in the israeli city of hadera two armed men opened fire. shooting at local residents was carried out at the passengers of the bus, as a result, two people died gears. among them, two police criminals were eliminated by law enforcement officers in the ministry of internal affairs called the incident a terrorist attack responsible for the incident. took over the banned in russia terrorist organization of the islamic state. nearly 19,000 people received mandatory evacuation requests as the colorado wi

why already blatantly noticed the diplomat used in the vehicle of the osce and services. republican deliveries on the internet, it can be seen that the cars of the dhl delivery company used for the transportation of weapons ended up in the hands of the armed forces of ukraine, we cannot exclude that, under the guise of cars of these organizations or cars with medical symbols, the very weapons that the west so generously promised kiev i hope you understand what kind of reputation such a scenario would inflict on everyone urged the west to stop putting out the fire of the ukrainian crisis with gasoline, supplying weapons to the kiev regime, and also to provoke an international food crisis and hunger in a number of countries and not to shift it to russia, but in this, the head of the russian ministry of foreign affairs sergey lavrov arrived in china, where tomorrow he will take part in the ministerial conference of afghanistan's neighbors. and today, the official representative of the ministry of foreign affairs wrote in her telegram russia, we zakharov, a bilateral meeting

moreover, he showed the photographs that he took there, because then the osce demanded access to theular. in mariupol, i think then everything began to be cleaned up. eh, so it’s unlikely that we ’ll see something right there on the spot. although those people who survived this torture in the library. they cleaned them up a bit. as you understand them a little, unfortunately, a lot. they really can show a lot there, and the bodies of people who were tortured, tortured and killed by these nazis. still have to search for a long time. i can name many cases, but here is the most likely one, and which we still have to investigate, when we start the process of denocification for real. e, sergey dolgov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper back to the ussr in mariupol and when the nazis of azov came there in may of the fourteenth year, yes, e, he was kidnapped, and his wife says, people came and introduced themselves showed the crusts of the sbu, moreover, the zaporozhye sbu confirmed that he really the fact is that he was taken to the zaporozhye sbu for interrogations . since then, no one has

i took the osce report from the nation ep.he one i’ll come up with, it’s the international organizations that write reports from the lugansk republic that they will see and in the east they are very supported by the russian peoples. they hate americans and it is important for them that they consider our president. just like a freedom movement. every second, arab. he wants to go to ukraine and fight the republic is not yet completely.

but they are not there, they are not there in reality, the osce, which is the last one for 8 years.he situation and at least somehow bore responsibility, because indeed their crews were there. they at least they saw something, fixed the time and so on, that is, they were responsible for this. now there's no one there and now these mcc, uh, commissioner for human rights. that is, he made global conclusions. and what are they doing? i don’t know what they are made of, then the real data will actually have to be mixed, then it will have to be with you and it is not known when there will be a political will to say about it. how many people actually died. how many civilians how many suffered, he said that they would never say the real losses of ukraine, that this is a contradiction, but now it's all classified, that yes, they can actually keep it secret, because if they tell the truth, then, of course, ukraine suddenly listen, well, we name by name, of course, we can't restore it there now. well, order. he already understands the order of more than 20,000 people, the ukrainian side of th

there, in my opinion, he went along with the osce to the line of demarcation, in my opinion, he had theset to say bad things about all the swedes. but the fact that in sweden it has always been quite a lot because of the times and it is still preserved. it's sorry medical actually. he, in my opinion, he doesn’t even fuss, in my opinion, he is a german, and even again, even in peacetime , his german experts on russia considered him such a professional russophone, that is, in in this sense, and now to explain, nothing will work. that is, when he says that azov is there, this is not what you think, and so on. this he is cunning, because he himself, again, he is still an expert to some extent. on the extreme right, and he also wrote about azov , and when, so to speak, in peacetime he wrote about azov, he wrote more or less in scientific journals, that's right. there he is not nazism, symbols and so on, but as soon as the matter concerns the political agenda, when he speaks. how to polit. quicker they are like there expert he says that there is nothing of this no at all here we will not be abl

was given to the ukrainian side in advance as well as a dedicated entity of the united nations, the osce latest address, ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky again condemned russia's attacks on civilians and renewed his demand for aircraft and more military assistance. translation: it is scary to | look at the ruined multistorey buildings, residential blocks and vehicles but grenades, missiles, against people. there is a feeling this is happening in some other country but it is happening in our country. exactly in our country, not anywhere else, in our country which always wanted peace most of all. how many more losses and deaths we need to incur? what is the difference between residents of kharkiv, different from residents of hamburg orany european countries? either you give us our military aircraft and air defence facilities providing a necessary force, it is the assistance above should provide to us. not onlyjust to ukraine but to themselves to prove that humanity will win. i'm joined now by alina frolova, former deputy minister of defence of ukraine and deputy chairperson of the ce

he's been a leader on this issue, on the helsinki commission, as well as on the osce parliamentary assembly participating on the saturday special session of the standing committee, where unity was shown within the osce in regards to supporting ukraine and against the aggression of mr. putin. i think we all have been just inspired by the extraordinary, courageous leadership of president zelenskyy. he addressed a joint meeting of congress yesterday morning. and it was powerful. i am proud of the leadership of president biden and congress, by our actions against the unprovoked attack by mr. putin on ukraine. we have led by our actions. we have supplied defensive lethal weapons so ukraine can defend itself. we have imposed the strongest sanctions ever against russia. and we have provided humanitarian assistance to deal with the humanitarian crisis within ukraine as well as the refugees that are leaving ukraine. and we have been able under president biden's leadership to unify the global community to isolate mr. putin and russia. so we have been effective in what we have done. but we must do mor

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and finally bring about a ceasefire phase withdrawal of the russian forces, perhaps-introduction of osce or observers or something along those lines and bring this terrible blood shed and destruction to an end. >> before leaving the white house, on his way here, the president warned -- president biden warned there's a real threat that putin could use chemical weapons. what should the u.s. do if he uses chemical, biological or -- was discussed at nato today, talking about nuclear weapons? >> i think what the u.s. has done is appropriate and what secretary general has done and that's issue a very significant warning to put them on notice that the results would be very, very severe. it's unwise, i think, to try to get into speculating what severe would mean in a particular case because we don't know what the particular case is. the hypotheticals are too numerous and too complex to try to again craft what it could be. but there's a whole tool box full of responses that will be put together. i'm very confident that national security advisor, jake sullivan and his team have sketched out what m

but i know from my own time here with the osc -- i was here in 2014, 2015. we had multiple talks with the russian-backed thugs in donetsk and representatives from moscow. each time a cease-fire was negotiated, it was broken shortly afterwards. there's a pattern of lying and deceit on the russian side, and i don't think we should expect anything less right now. >> it's a bit of a different situation only in the sense that here the russians are certainly not performing the way they had hoped. >> right. >> their ground advances have stalled. they're starting to use crude aerial bombardments on clearly marked civilian targets. i mean what does that tell you about what their intentions are? >> yeah, their intentions are to throw everything they have, and these crude missiles are the same ones they also used on donetsk. we call them kind of stupid missiles. they're not guided and they land anywhere. but most of the time in populated centers with maximum damage. so it will be a kind of scorched earth policy, sad to say. and then perhaps they'll retreat. but it's ve

human rights council and the osce expert mission overseeing ukraine. an nsc official here in the u.s. tells me the u.s. supports prosecution if it comes to that. but today president biden sounded conclusive >> did you ask me whether i would call -- >> putt putin a war criminal si? >>. >> reporter: in response -- called biden's un. shep. >> kayla tausche, live in washington >>> there may be progress on the diplomatic front -- may. peace talks between ukraine and russia set to resume after the russian foreign minister hinted at a possible compromise but as optimism grows for a cease-fire, russian forces are continuing to blast ukraine to oblivion a warning now, the video coming up is deeply disturbing. nbc news obtained this video of bodies on the streets of the northern city of chernihiv according to ukrainian media, russian forces shot and killed at least ten people. they were waiting on a bread line, murdered while trying to get food now, we can't verify the claims. moscow denies the allegations. this is surveillance video from kyiv this morning. it s

a parliamentarian i met at the osce of which we are part of, meeting in lithuania and vienna, talkingo the soldiers on the borders of belarus and lithuania, thank you to the soldiers that have placed almost 100,000 sewediers, is -- soldiers, is that putin is killing without cause. can we tolerate this bloodshed? no, we will not. we will stand with this resolution to demand that democracy stands in the region and that we denounce his actions. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: mr. speaker, i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. meeks: mr. speaker, i'm glad to yield one minute to the dynamic representative from the great state of texas, mr. al green. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. green: and still i rise, mr. speaker. and i rise on this historic occasion to compliment the chairperson and the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee. what they're doing today will be held in the annals o

we met with the russians at nato headquarters and at the osce. sadly putin opted for another path, another path of aggression. and ever since that day, since february 24th, we've been applying pressure on them to stop the war. >> president biden, as you well know, was with you in brussels this week at an emergency nato summit. i want you to listen to what a top advisor to president zelenskyy said speaking about that summit. >> we are very disappointed, if i'm honest. we would expect more bravery, expected some bold decisions. the allies are taking decisions as if they're no worth -- >> he went on to say nato's response was, quote, appeasement. as the u.s. ambassador to nato, what's your response? >> well, this has been a remarkable moment in nato's history. we came together quickly, the same day russia went into ukraine, we had an emergency session. we activated plans to move forces into eastern europe. we also immediately started providing lethal assistance to ukraine. the united states, since january of last year, has provided $2 billion of let

was given to the ukrainian side in advance, as well as dedicated entities of the united nations, the osceees of the red cross. a very different take to president macron. let's take a closer look at the areas under russian control. you can see them labelled here in red. the port of mariupol, where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped, is especially important as it ensures ukraine's access to the black sea. but the main concentration of russian forces is still around kyiv, and there are fresh warnings from ukraine authorities of an all—out assault on the capital. here's our chief international correspondent lyse doucet in kyiv. there is a fear that this is a conflict which will never end because so many believed in the run up to this invasion that it simply wouldn't happen, and it did. many people believed that russia would not try to attack some historic cities full of meaning, sacred meaning for both russians and ukrainians. they would not come under attack. but tonight we're hearing that the beautiful city of odesa on the black sea coast — described as a place of operas and beaches