Brussels - The Crimean authorities have closed the OSCE office on the peninsula and do not allow observers to return there, which creates a problem for the Crimean Tatars, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has said.
He said in Brussels on Nov. 12, while answering questions from deputies at a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, that the OSCE could no longer work in Crimea to protect the endangered minority.
The mandate of the observer mission does include Crimea, and OSCE observers were trying to get there, but did not get access to the region, Zannier said.
When asked whether he knows that Russia allegedly began deploying nuclear means in Crimea, he said that the OSCE knew nothing about that.
