4 June 2015, 18:21 GMT
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The larger regional partners in the Organization for Security Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) partners are most responsible for resolving the crisis in Ukraine, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday of Serbia’s chairmanship of the OSCE.
“I have no dreams that such a small country like Serbia can resolve such a big problem,” Vucic stated in a speech at Johns Hopkins University. He added that “there are big players who should resolve these issues.”
Serbia assumed the OSCE chairmanship in January 2015, only weeks before the organization helped broker the Minsk II ceasefire agreements between Kiev and independence supporters in the east of Ukraine.
The OSCE as well as Ukraine, Germany, France, Russia and representatives from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics signed the Minsk II agreement in February 2015.
Vucic asserted that Serbia will do its best “to preserve the peace” in Ukraine, “but we do not dream big dreams.”
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine is responsible for observing the situation in the country, and helping facilitate dialogue among the parties involved in the conflict.
