Pavlo Klimkin met with Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Michael Link
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin met with Director of the OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Michael Link.
The two
sides discussed the recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report on the
early presidential elections in Ukraine on May 25, 2014, as well as ODIHR’s possible assistance in improving the election
legislation and practices in Ukraine.
The sides
agreed with further continuation of the bilateral cooperation in all the
spheres of the ODIHR’s activity. It was agreed that
the issue of the Crimea’s illegal annexation and the ongoing human rights
abuses that occur on the peninsula with the support of the Russian occupying
authorities has to remain high on the agenda of the international community.
Among other
issues the two sides discussed implementation of the Peace Plan of President P.Poroshenko and engagement of the OSCE
ODIHR into resolving the situation with Nadia Savchenko, who is being illegally detained in Russia.
The ODIHR Director will stay in Ukraine until 17 July.