Complete ceasefire should precede holding elections in Donbas - OSCE

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria Sebastian Kurz has said a full ceasefire should be the foundation for free and fair elections in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The basis for the efficient work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission must be a real ceasefire, which should also become the foundation for holding free and fair elections in Donbas, Kurz said at a joint briefing with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Mariupol on Wednesday.