He US Secretary of State, Antony Blinkenand its counterpart Russian, Sergei Lavrovparticipate this Thursday in the annual meeting of the OSCE in Malta, which will have the Russian invasion of Ukraine as its central topic. It is the first time that the Russian foreign chief has been in a European Union country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Blinken and Lavrov will coincide in the plenary session which is being held today, unlike last year, when the American was only there for a few hours for bilateral meetings and an informal work dinner, to which Lavrov was not invited. He head of Russian diplomacy even accused Blinken of “cowardice” and to avoid him.
Song of the day tension between Russia and the Westthis meeting begins with the feeling that both parties they can reach agreements on matters affecting the internal functioning of the OSCE. Diplomatic sources relate this change to the Republican Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House and the turn he has promised in his aid to Ukraine.
