EU diplomacy chief snubs OSCE meeting attended by Russian Foreign Minister
Head of European Diplomacy Josep Borrell (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
The chief diplomat of the European Union, Josep Borrell, ignored the OSCE ministerial meeting. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, was there, according to the OSCE meeting.
The delegation of the European Union was nevertheless represented at the Council of Ministers of the OSCE member states. The deputy head of the EU delegation to the OSCE, Rasa Ostaruskaite, spoke instead of Borrell.
The European official condemned Russia and Belarus for aggression against Ukraine and other states.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba was also not present at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the OSCE. He is boycotting the meeting, because the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov, is present at it.
Ukraine was also supported by the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Yesterday, November 29, Poland supported the boycott.
In turn, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Skopje but did not stay at the summit for a short time. Blinken left Skopje before Lavrov arrived there.
Meeting of the Ministers of the OSCE
On November 30 and December 1, the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is held in North Macedonia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was invited to the meeting for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Russia is blocking the work of the OSCE. North Macedonia was expected to be replaced by Estonia as the presiding country, but the Russians opposed it.
The main thing about the meeting of the OSCE ministers and Ukraine's démarche - read in the report of RBC-Ukraine.
