DONETSK. Dec 4 (Interfax) - For the delivery of Ukrainian pensions to Donbas the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) needs to introduce amendments to its mandate approved by all of the OSCE member states, the OSCE SMM press and public information department told Interfax.
"For introducing any amendments to the mandate the Mission needs a consensus-based decision made by all of the 57 OSCE member states," the mission said, when asked about the possibility of discussing the pension delivery to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR/LPR) by the OSCE SMM.
"In line with the mandate, the OSCE SMM is tasked with collecting information and reporting on the security situation in the area of its activity, establishing and reporting various facts, reacting to concrete incidents and the reports about incidents, pursuing the monitoring of the observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms and backing their honoring, as well as facilitating the establishment of the local dialogue in efforts to ease tensions and help improve the situation," the OSCE SMM added.
As previously reported, chair of the Donetsk regional state administration controlled by Kyiv Pavlo Kyrylenko suggested to the OSCE joining the delivery of pensions to Donbas.
Kyiv has stopped the payments of pensions, social benefits and salaries to budget-funded employees in the LPR and the DPR since the summer of 2014. The issue of resuming them is being discussed at the meetings of the economic subgroup on Donbas in Minsk.