INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday expressed indifference over the future of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
divisions within the organization.Lavrov, who attended the two-day summit, criticized the organization but also expressed a lack of concern
The [OSCE] has already turned itself into something that makes me indifferent to what will happen to it next," the Russian minister told
reporters.At the same time, Moscow's invasion of Ukraine sparked fierce criticism from participants at the Skopje summit this week."Russia's
war of aggression against Ukraine flies in the face of all this organization holds dear," said Bujar Osmani, North Macedonia's Foreign
Minister and OSCE chairman in office, during opening remarks at the start of the summit.But Lavrov on Friday said: "I don't care about the
results of this OSCE meeting."In an address on Thursday, the Russian official said that OSCE was becoming an "appendage" of NATO and the
EU."The organization, let's face it, is on the edge of a precipice
A simple question arises: does it make sense to invest in its revitalization?"This year's summit in Skopje was boycotted by Ukraine,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland over Lavrov's attendance, which the latter described as "unacceptable."Ukraine wants the OSCE to expel
Russia, as the Council of Europe has done, warning the body faced a "slow death."
