Statement by Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, on upcoming exchange of detainees between Ukraine and certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (ORDLO)

KYIV, 26 December 2017 - The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, issued today the following statement:

I welcome that the sides have agreed to conduct an exchange of detainees on 27 December - a step long awaited by the prisoners and their families. This is a deeply humanitarian gesture, even more so on the occasion of Christmas and New Year. I call upon the sides to provide conditions of dignity and respect for each of the persons to be exchanged.