Russia: Russia 'ready to accept' armed OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine - Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was "ready to accept" OSCE observers carrying weapons in eastern Ukraine, during an interview he gave with Russian TV presenter Sergei Brilev in Moscow, Saturday.
"If it helps the case, we are ready to accept the fact that this group of observers, who will monitor the demarcation line and heavy weapons storage site, will have the right to carry personal weapons," Lavrov stated.
Russia's top diplomat also commented on the Ukrainian leaders' efforts to keep the fragile truce alive, stating that "Petro Poroshenko himself have been obsessed for the last two or three months with the fact that it is necessary to ensure some security forces throughout the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, and only after all these areas are taken under international arms control, it will be possible to carry out reforms, announce elections, change constitution and so on."
Lavrov went to to say that "In the end the conversation at the highest level revolved around the fact that it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of the OSCE mission working there," before adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin "stood for increasing first of all the potential of this mission at the line of demarcation."