The ministry said that the parties to the Minsk agreements on February 12, 2015 urged the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine and the Joint Centre on Control and Coordination (JCCC) to intensify their work, assist and monitor the heavy weapons’ withdrawal.
"Regrettably, the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine, referring to the absence of certain instructions, is unwilling to fulfil its functions and is evading monitoring of the conflict sides’ heavy weapons withdrawal," the ministry said. "We’d like to note that the heavy weapons’ withdrawal plan had been coordinated within the framework of the Joint Centre on Control and Coordination and known to the OSCE mission."
"Moscow expects the OSCE special monitoring mission to immediately start the fulfilment of its functions for the monitoring and verification of the withdrawal of heavy weapons by all sides of the conflict," the Russian Foreign Ministry statement says.
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