Russia Saturday blasted Warsaw’s refusal to permit Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to wait a assembly subsequent month of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe as “remarkable and provocative”.
“The selection from Poland, that’s the performing chairman of the OSCE, to refuse the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov withinside the OSCE’s ministerial assembly in Lodz on December 1-2 is remarkable and provocative,” the overseas ministry stated of the collection of ministers from the world’s biggest protection frame.
“Not handiest did Warsaw discredit itself, it additionally prompted irreparable harm to the credibility of the agency as a whole,” the ministry stated.
Poland stated Friday it might now no longer permit Lavrov, beneathneath European sanctions, withinside the united states for the assembly.
“Delegations ought to be adjusted to the cutting-edge EU guidelines and now no longer encompass people which can be sanctioned via way of means of the European Union,” the Polish OSCE chairmanship stated in a statement.
“With such unfavourable decisions, the Poles… are pushing the OSCE into the abyss,” the Russian overseas ministry answered.
It stated the pass could be “depriving (the OSCE) of the final threat to expose its relevance in strengthening protection and organising cooperation, for which it turned into created”.
The ministry charged that the safety frame turned into turning into “a platform for political display and anti-Russian exercises”.
“We are satisfied that every one practical politicians percentage the location of the Russian aspect concerning the inadmissibility of such actions,” it stated.
The Russian delegation will as a substitute be led via way of means of Russia’s everlasting consultant to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.
