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OSCE sends military observers to Crimea

5 March 2014, 09:07 -- The United States and 14 other nations on Tuesday are sending a military observer mission intended to monitor the tense Crimea region, amid tensions in Ukraine, according to a US official.

Daniel Baer, the chief US delegate to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told The Associated Press that each country was contributing two individuals. But with more OSCE member nations expected to join, he said the mission could grow beyond its present strength of 30 people.

'An OSCE mission has arrived in Kiev which will go to the Crimean peninsula to monitor the situation,' Ukraine's national security chief, Andriy Paruby, told a news conference in Kiev.

He said the security situation on the Black Sea peninsula was 'complicated but stable'.

Several members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were set to send up a maximum of two observers each on the mission, diplomatic sources at OSCE headquarters in Vienna said.

The United States has agreed to take part, US envoy Daniel Baer said.

'The invitation is for a week-long visit initially. The United States will dispatch two monitors per the request of the Ukrainian government,' he told Reuters.

Voice of Russia, AP, Reuters

Source: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_05/ OSCE-sends-military-observers-to-Crimea-5672/