20 armored vehicles donated by Europe to the OSCE

(B2) The OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine will officially take possession today (10 March) of the 20 armored vehicles donated to it by the European Union. Vehicles that come from the EUAM Ukraine mission (based in Kiev to advise on Ukrainian internal security reforms) and from surplus missions that are no longer effective (EUBAM Libya) or have reduced their wings (EUMM Georgia).

Nb: This contribution is one of the concrete supports expressed in Riga by the European Union for the extension of the OSCE mission in Ukraine (read on the Club: The European Union wants to better support the OSCE mission in Ukraine). But this is still modest... To go from 400 observers to almost 1000 observers, very quickly, more than 20 vehicles will be needed. To give an idea, the only European observation mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia) which has a fleet of 128 vehicles (armored / unarmoured) has just acquired 12 additional armored vehicles.

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