Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims that it is time to think about whether the existence of the organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is still meaningful. According to TASS report, TASR reports this.
“The OSCE is full of problems. It was pushed on the edge of international processes under their burden. There is no longer space for cooperation or security on the Vienna platform. The creators of the final act of the security and cooperation conference in Europe were not imagined by the future of the pan -European process,” the Minister said in his article published in Rosskaya Gazeta.
Criticism
“It is time to think about whether the next existence of this organization makes sense at all,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov claims that the ideas of the sovereign equality of nations and the mutually respectful dialogue, which he believes no longer promotes, are found on multilateral cooperation platforms such as the organization of the Collective Security Treaty (OZKB), the Community of Independent States (CIS), the Shanghai organization for cooperation (SCO) and other regional associations in Eurasia.
Alternatives of cooperation
According to Lavrov, there is no place to “enforce one group of states at the expense of others, the approach of participants to equal cooperation and seeking real consensus” prevails.
According to the chief of diplomacy, Russia considers the creation of a flexible and sustainable architecture of the same and indivisible security and cooperation in Eurasia that will be able to face the current challenges as a strategic direction. Lavrov claims that the OSCE could not ensure the indivisibility of safety.
The need for adaptation
The Russian Minister said that the OSCE has a chance to correct the situation if it adapts to new geopolitical conditions. “The OSCE does not have the future if NATO and the EU eventually breaks the rule of consensus and will continue to use the Vienna platform as their own assets for a large promotional campaign for the demonization of Russia and other ‘disobedient’ and defending their protégés in Kiev,” Lavrov concluded.
The OSCE, which has 57 members, including Ukraine and Russia, has been practically paralyzed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a result of the sentence of Moscow. The organization was established in 1975 at the top of the Cold War, its task was to strengthen the relations between the Western and Eastern Bloc. It currently works more or less than the body coordinating its members in human rights matters or arms control. It also sends its observers to conflict areas or to monitor the course of elections around the world.
