The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine began its work at the beginning of Russia's military aggression in Donbas in late March 2014. It is a group of unarmed civilian observers that temporarily monitors and reports on the human rights and humanitarian situation both in the conflict zone in Donbas and throughout Ukraine.
This was stated by the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Alexander Hug during a conversation with the rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University Professor Yurii Bobalo. Alexander Hug told about various aspects of the mission's activities in Ukraine, in particular, the goals of this organization, its members, whom it reports, its mandate in Ukraine and the situation in eastern Ukraine.
The rector Yurii Bobalo spoke about history and the present life of one of the oldest higher technical education institutions in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and expressed hope that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine soon will successfully fulfill its work and a solid and lasting peace will be established in Ukraine.
Later Alexander Hug and the members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine met with law students from the Institute of Jurisprudence and Psychology. Actually, the initiator of such a dialogue was the head of the institute Professor Volodymyr Ortynskyi.
Let's remind that this year in March Lviv Polytechnic was visited by the representative of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Lviv Michael Sullivan. The visit of Alexander Hug became a logical continuation of the initiated dialogue of the mission and the public on the cessation of conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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