Russian Foreign Minister Gets Excluded from OSCE Security Meeting

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: December 2, 2022; 23:07 ♦ (Vindobona)

The annual Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Security Council took place between the 1st and 2nd of December in Lodz, Poland, where the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Countries met. However, the meeting was overshadowed by the back-and-forth situation between the Ministers of some OSCE countries – mainly Poland - and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was expelled from the OSCE Security Meeting in Poland because the Polish Government denied his visa. / Picture: © English: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Wikimedia Commons / English: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0

The OSCE held its security meeting with the Foreign Ministers of 55 out of 57 OSCE countries – Belarus and Russia excluded –, and other representatives to discuss the most important topics for the OSCE region. Naturally, denouncing the Russian aggression in Ukraine was the top priority on their Agenda,