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Dacic, who is also OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, underlined at a regular monthly press conference that the most important thing is to prolong the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine, which expires in late March, and added that the mandate should be prolonged by 12, instead of 6 months, as it has been case so far.
He said that the Normandy Four, made of leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine, entrusted the OSCE Mission to Ukraine with controlling and verifying the implementation of the Minsk agreement, which stipulates ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons.
The First Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that in the previous days the first good news came from Ukraine regarding the implementation of the Minsk agreement, and that local elections should be held in the east of the country, in agreement with the authorities in Kiev, and the Constitution be changed.
Dacic announced that he will visit Croatia on 11 March, at the invitation of Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, and added that the main topic of the talks in Zagreb will be making a step towards the best possible relations between the two countries.
Dacic singled out as the most important activity in the previous month his visit to the United States, where he attended a session of the UN Security Council and met with US Secretary of State John Kerry.