“To authorize the Russian Interior Ministry, with the approval of Russia’s Foreign Ministry, to send staff members of the Russian Interior Ministry to serve as part of the missions by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and to take part in the OSCE projects and programs carried out in foreign states,” the document reads.
The decree is effective immediately.
The OSCE, with roots in the 1973 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. The OSCE addresses a wide range of concerns, including arms control, counter-terrorism activities and human rights protection.
Under the February 2015 Minsk deal leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany tasked the OSCE with controlling the pullout of heavy weapons from the line of contact. The OSCE has also been given the responsibility of monitoring the situation in Ukraine amid a Kiev military operation in the country's east against independence supporters of Donbas.
