#OSCEact4Ukraine twitter storm on December 4-5, 2014, during OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Basel

On 4 and 5 December 2014 the 21st Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the OSCE in Basel, Switzerland, will be held. Let’s support Ukraine suffering from an overt Russian invasion that OSCE observers seem not to notice and demand that #OSCEact4Ukraine! Event in facebook:

The event’s official hashtag is #OSCEMC14.

The Ministerial Council is the central decision-making and governing body of the OSCE. The meeting, held annually, provides the foreign ministers of the 57 OSCE participating States an opportunity to review and assess the Organization’s activities during the past year and offer national viewpoints on security matters.

There are numerous issues with the OSCE monitoring mission deployed to Ukraine. It has been accused of a pro-Russian position, and its Russian members have been even noticed giving away the positions of Ukrainian military to the Russian military.

-only 2 checkpoints are monitored on the Russian-Ukrainian border
– NATO officials say that “multiple columns of” Russian tanks, artillery, and antiaircraft units have crossed from Russia into separatist-controlled territory since November 10; meanwhile, the OSCE reports “unidentified” columns of military vehicles crossing the border
-OSCE vehicles have been used by separatist forces
-OSCE has waited months to deploy drones to monitor the border only to withdraw them after several weeks due to Russian electronic attacks
-OSCE has been accused of revealing the locations of Ukrainian troops to Russian forces during the conflict
-Russian OSCE observers may be directly coordinating separatist artillery strikes on Ukrainian positions
-what are Russian observers doing in the observation mission anyway?!
-OSCE observers have not inspected the (r)aid convoys coming in from Russia
-Serbia will be presiding in OSCE in 2015, meaning more support for Putin
-what about #CrimeaisUkraine and violation of human rights in occupied Crimea?

We demand that:

#OSCE ensures border control
#OSCE secures borders
#OSCE does its job
#OSCE faces the fact that Russia is an aggressor
#OSCE is impartial
#OSCE defends human rights in #Crimea
#OSCE condemns the Russian invasion
#OSCE includes no Russian members in its monitoring mission to Ukraine

List of tweets for December 4. Click to tweet, it’s as easy as that

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Graffiti: Crimea is Ukraine

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