"All weapons must be withdrawn from front line"

"All weapons must be withdrawn from front line"

THE HAGUE -- Serbian FM and OSCE Chairperson Ivica Dacic ad Swiss FM Didier Burkhalter have called on the parties in Ukraine to withdraw all weapons from the front line.

The Swiss Telegraphic Agency (ATS) reported that the ministers of foreign affairs, who met on the sidelines of the conference on cyber space security in The Hague on Thursday, underlined that the call for withdrawal does not refer solely to heavy weapons, but also to light weapons.

They urged all conflicting parties to refrain from the use of weapons, ATS said citing the statement by Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Jean-Marc Crevoisier.

Dacic and Burkhalter called on the conflicting parties to enable the access to OSCE observers wherever this is necessary or possible.

The officials also said that the working groups, whose formation is envisaged by the peace agreement signed in Minsk in February, have to start operating under the OSCE leadership promptly so as to ensure that there are no halts in the peacekeeping process.