VIENNA (Reuters) - Russia joined the 56 other members of the OSCE on Friday in a hard-fought consensus decision to send a six-month monitoring mission of the pan-European rights and security group to help defuse the crisis in Ukraine.
But the United States and Russia gave different interpretations of whether the mission - to initially consist of 100 civilian monitors and whose deployment will begin this weekend - will be able to go to Crimea, after the Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Russia.
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