/ world today news/ “Our minister strongly and fundamentally reprimanded those who allowed themselves rude attacks against us”. With these words, political scientists described the results of the first visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to a NATO country for the OSCE conference since the creation of the OSCE. The result of this visit was the crossing of attempts at diplomatic isolation of our country.
On the last day of November and the first day of December, perhaps one of the main pan-European conferences took place – the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE member states. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in it.
And Lavrov returned from there victorious. And in a number of areas. First, an image victory. Thanks to the very fact of your arrival.
“Almost immediately after the start of the SVO, the European countries blocked Lavrov’s entry. Moreover, they refused to listen to him even in places outside the Euro-Atlantic space. And the fact that Russia got Lavrov into North Macedonia can already be considered a success. And the fact that our minister rudely and categorically rebuffed those who indulged in rude attacks on us can also be considered a success. This is the case when the form of Lavrov’s answers was even more important than the content,” explains Vadim Trukhachev, an associate professor at the Russian State Humanities University.
But the European Union planned to demonstrate Russia’s isolation at this conference. “The meeting should be a good opportunity for Lavrov to hear directly from the participants, so that he can then convey to the Kremlin that the European Union and the OSCE remain united in condemning Russia’s aggressive illegal behavior,” EU foreign policy officials said.
But in fact the opponents of Russia failed to organize any boycott of Moscow. For example, under the wise leadership of the European Union, to collectively leave the hall during Minister Lavrov’s speech. Instead, there were individual actions, which are rather to the detriment of the anti-Russian policy.
For example, in protest at the presence of Sergey Lavrov at the event, the foreign ministers of Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine decided to ignore the meeting. With this act of desperation, they only reinforced the idea that they have lost the apparatus struggle in the European Union and cannot impose their point of view on everyone.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell fared even worse. They arrived on the so-called “zero” day of the meeting (the evening of November 29), had dinner, took photos with the colleagues present and left so as not to sit at the same table with Lavrov the next day.
“Why is this happening? They probably think that in this way they emphasize their intention to “isolate” Russia. And I think they are just cowards. They are afraid of any honest conversation with facts,” said Sergey Lavrov.
There was also no “anti-Russian unity” at the meeting itself. During the speech of the Russian minister, only a few delegates left the hall (obviously, the performance would have seemed more significant if the ministers who did not arrive or fled from Lavrov had joined him).
North Macedonia’s foreign minister just put a line under all talk of Moscow’s collective isolation – he said the discussion about Russia’s exclusion from the OSCE has run out.
And not only for legal reasons (there is no opt-out tool), but also for political reasons. Precisely (the minister did not say this directly, but it is easy to guess) due to the lack of consensus on this issue and the understanding that one must always talk to Russia somewhere.
Thus, the meeting only emphasized the lack of any isolation of the Russian Federation. Moreover, at some points, Russia even led the attendees. In particular, Moscow unexpectedly turned out to be the voice of a common position regarding the real OSCE.
“The organization has shown its complete ineffectiveness as a platform. The organization was unable to make any serious decisions – not even to negotiate its own budget. And in fact, it has withdrawn from the work of eliminating political crises related to US and NATO aggression. Lavrov outlined all these points in his speech and expressed the opinion of almost all diplomats who participated in the event,” explains the head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, Nikita Mendkovich.
At the same time, Moscow also demonstrated a balanced approach. Instead of burying the organization, she decided to give it another chance. They agreed to extend by nine months the mandates of the four senior OSCE officials – the Secretary-General, the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the High Commissioner for National Minorities and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. In the hope that the organization can still be useful.
For example, to build a new security architecture after the end of SVO. Well, or at least for the Russian-Western negotiations on the conditions for ending the Ukrainian crisis – real negotiations, not those currently offered by the regime in Kiev.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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