Belarusian National Platform appeals for international monitoring of the situation in Ukraine

24 February 2014

Appeal of Belarusian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum "On the international monitoring of the situation in Ukraine"

UN Secretary-General

Secretary-General of the Council of Europe

OSCE Secretary General

EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Belarusian civil society organizations are extremely concerned about bloody violence and force developments around the protests in Ukraine. Hundreds killed and dozens injured, the prospect of an further escalation of confrontation - all this requires the immediate creation of a rapid response mechanism for:

• formation of a large-scale group of observers, both staff and representatives of international organizations, as well as among civil society experts;

• organization of long-term observation of the conflict and crisis situations;

• mediation between the different parties to the conflict;

• perform other functions aimed at reducing the negative consequences and prevention of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms in such situations.

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