MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax) - Moscow welcomes the decision of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Permanent Council to place 16 monitors at the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border for three months and expects them to arrive as soon as possible, the Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department said in a statement.
"We expect OSCE monitors to arrive to the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints as quickly as possible. We hope their objective monitoring of the situation at the Russian-Ukrainian border will help bring information to the global community and create favorable conditions to stop armed resistance in eastern Ukraine as soon as possible," the document said,
"The stance of Ukraine, the United States and Canada, manifested during according the OSCE draft decision," is regrettable, the Foreign Ministry said.
"We are glad that in the end common sense won and the decisions was made unanimously," the statement said.
Representatives of the named countries "impeded reaching a consensus and tried to add to the decision elements, which have nothing to do with it, taking them out of context of the Berlin declaration provision and distorting the essence of the Russian initiative," the Foreign Ministry said.