VIENNA, August 28. /ITAR-TASS/. Switzerland currently presiding in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will convene an extraordinary meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on the situation in Ukraine on Thursday.

The meeting will be held at 11am local time (9 a.m. UTC) on Thursday at the OSCE head office in the Austrian capital, an official of the Swiss delegation said.