NATO and EU countries have driven the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) into a deep crisis. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this during talks with OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu.
‘You [Feridun Sinirlioglu – ed.] headed the secretariat in difficult times, by the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, the organisation has approached the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act in a very deep crisis into which it was driven by NATO countries and the European Union,’ Sergei Lavrov said.
The Foreign Minister expressed hope that Feridun Sinirlioglu would be able to return the OSCE to the principles proclaimed in the declarations.
‘You have more than once publicly expressed your position on this issue in the very direction in which the OSCE should develop. We appreciate this position and will contribute to it in every possible way,’ Lavrov emphasised.
The OSCE Secretary General, for his part, spoke about plans to bring the organisation to an ‘appropriate state’.
Earlier, former Greek ambassador to Ukraine Vasilios Bornovas said that observers from the OSCE mission had passed secret data on the location of LPR and DPR armed formations to the Ukrainian military.
