2023-11-30 12:02:17
Austria’s Foreign Minister spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov regarding a personnel package at the request of the North Macedonian OSCE Chairmanship. Afterwards, in the plenary session, Lavrov lambasted NATO, the West, the “neo-Nazi regime in Kiev” and also the OSCE.
A debate looks different. One statement followed the next at the Boris Trajkovski Sports Center in the North Macedonian capital Skopje. Three minutes each were allotted – multiplied by 57. Foreign ministers, state secretaries and ambassadors from the 57 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sat around a large rectangular table on Thursday and read out their statements. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was represented by his OSCE ambassador. After a short visit the evening before, he had already flown on to the Middle East. But his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov did not miss the opportunity to appear in the illustrious group. The chief diplomats of Ukraine, Poland and the three Baltic states did not want to sit at the same table with him and therefore canceled. “How can you talk to an aggressor who is committing genocide in the member state of Ukraine?” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna asked the day before at a NATO meeting in Brussels.
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