Because of Lavrov, the OSCE meeting in Skopje was ignored by the ministers of half of the NATO countries

The ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which began in the capital of North Macedonia, Skopje, was ignored by 13 of the 31 members of the North Atlantic Alliance due to the presence of Sergei Lavrov.

This is stated in the article “European Truth” The OSCE did not saddle Lavrov: how an attempt to “bend under” the top diplomat of the Russian Federation only aggravated the problems.

The process of boycotting the OSCE meeting due to the participation of the Russian Foreign Minister was launched by Dmitry Kuleba’s demarche. He was publicly supported by the Baltic states and Poland, who together participated in the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.

“According to EuroPravda, 13 of 31 NATO member states refused to travel to Skopje and did not board a charter transporting ministers from one meeting to another,” the material says.

But even those ministers who came to Skopje, after a joint dinner at which Lavrov was not present, decided not to go to the meeting itself and left deputies, assistants or simply ambassadors to speak in their place.

This is in particular Secretary of State Antony Blinken and head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell, who entrusted the speech to the Lithuanian diplomat, to the work of the Ostrauskaite Race. The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, Italy, Poland, Belgium and others also did not appear at the event.

In addition, during Lavrov’s speech at the meeting, Ukraine and representatives of several other countries demonstratively left the hall. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry reacted to this with a nervous “Leave me alone!”, that is, “leave me alone!”

At the same time, as expected, we met separately with Lavrov Hungarian minister Peter Szijjártówho called for stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine, as well as Austrian Foreign Minister Schallenbergwho held the meeting at the request of the OSCE and called “not to be afraid of dialogue.”

Read the article for details: The OSCE did not saddle Lavrov: how an attempt to “bend under” the top diplomat of the Russian Federation only aggravated the problems.

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