The OSCE's new chairman, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, said the organisation was "not satisfied with the status quo we have now" during a visit to the government-held city of Mariupol outside rebel-controlled regions.
"We want to make efforts to see change for the better," Kurz told reporters.
During his two-day visit to Ukraine's war-torn east, Kurz stressed the importance of implementing the so-called Minsk agreements designed to bring an end to a conflict that has claimed 10,000 lives since 2014.
Kurz added that expectations regarding the possible deployment of an armed OSCE police force in rebel-held areas needed to be "realistic."
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Kiev has pressing for an international armed police presence in the region so that it can be brought under control and seal Ukraine's porous eastern border with Russia -- allegedly used by rebels to smuggle in weapons and supplies.
But the idea of arming the OSCE mission has been met with resistance by the pro-Russian "people's republics" in the industrial regions of most Lugansk and Donetsk.
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