Special Monitoring Mission

BELGRADE - The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia's foreign minister Ivica Dacic, has strongly urged all sides to refrain from any action that might endanger the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that came into effect on February 15, 2015.

OSCE welcomes Minsk agreement

VIENNA -- OSCE Chair and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic welcomed on Thursday the results of the meeting achieved in Minsk.

He gave his "full support to the package of measures for implementation of the agreement reached by the Trilateral Contact Group in September 2014," the OSCE said.

BELGRADE - OSCE Chair and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic welcomed on Thursday the results of the meeting achieved in Minsk and gave full support to the package of measures for implementation of the agreement reached by the Trilateral Contact Group in September 2014, states the OSCE release.

Dacic calls for "three day truce" in eastern Ukraine

VIENNA -- Ivica Dacic has called on all actors of the continuing heavy fighting around Debaltsevo in Ukraine to immediately stop all military activities.

OSCE condemns "use of heavy weapons"

VIENNA, NEW YORK -- The OSCE Permanent Council held a special meeting on Monday concerning the deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine.

The meeting concerned "especially the clashes in civilian parts of Mariupol," Tanjug reported.

VIENNA - The OSCE Permanent Council held a special meeting on Monday concerning the deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine, especially the clashes in the civilian parts of Mariupol, and Serbia condemned the use of heavy weaponry.

Serbia, as the OSCE chair, condemned the use of heavy weaponry in civilian areas and called for an immediate stop to hostilities on the ground.

At least 15 people have been killed and 76 injured in a series of rocket attacks allegedly launched by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on Saturday.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry said in a statement houses in the government-held city had been hit by rockets fired by the rebels.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has again called for restraint of all parties involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine following new killing of civilians in the Donetsk region.

BELGRADE - OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic condemned the use of force in Ukraine, calling on all sides to demonstrate maximum restraint and work towards achieving a sustainable ceasefire, the OSCE stated in a release.

Deadly Ukraine bus attack condemned

BELGRADE -- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic has condemned in the strongest terms the attack on a bus near a government-controlled checkpoint in Buhas, Ukraine.

The Serbian foreign minister, speaking in his OSCE role, called for an immediate ceasefire.