There was no consensus on this, said the current OSCE chairman, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, at the end of the Lodz Council of Ministers on Friday. “It is the most difficult year in the history of the organization, the reason is well known,” said Rau, referring to the war.
Both Ukraine and Russia are among the 57 member states of the OSCE. However, the meeting in Lodz took place without the Russian head of department, Sergei Lavrov, because Poland had refused him entry. Instead, Russia was represented by its Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich.
Based in Vienna, the OSCE grew out of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) established in 1975, which promoted détente between East and West. In October, she condemned the Russian attacks in Ukraine as “terror” against the civilian population.
(SDA)