KYIV. May 29 (Interfax) - The Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) told Interfax that while there are no plans to remove its observers from Ukraine, it does not rule out their re-groupings.
We are not planning to withdraw our mission from Ukraine, but there might be certain regroupings, the mission spokesman Michael Bociurkiw told Interfax on Wednesday.
In making these regroupings the OSCE will take into account the security situation in all the ten locations where its monitors are working, he said.
The OSCE Chairman-in-office's special representative, Wolfgang Ischinger, said earlier that the OSCE could decide to withdraw its observers from Ukraine if their life was in danger.
The OSCE said the day earlier that it had lost contact with one of its groups of observers who worked in the Donetsk region. The mission told Interfax that the group consisted of four members: an Estonian, a Swiss, a Turk and a Dane. Contact with them was lost on the night of May 27.
On Wednesday the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the four members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission had been captured by pro-Russian activists in the Donetsk region.
Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic stated they had no information about the whereabouts of the OSCE mission members.