“The Ukrainian delegation was forced to boycott the work in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly until this international organization can form its attitude to the participation of Russians – propagandists and representatives of a terrorist state, a criminal state “, he wrote.
According to Poturaev, since there was not even a decision to suspend the powers of the Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Ukrainian delegation decided to boycott work in the international organization until “a solution is found” .
He also said that Ukraine was supported by the delegations of Estonia and Lithuania, who left the committee meeting together.
November 17th Poland has refused to issue visas members of the Russian delegation to attend the ongoing session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Warsaw from 24 to 26 November.
On November 18, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will not be invited to the OSCE meeting in Lodz and that the Russian side was informed of this by diplomatic note. TO The Russian Foreign Ministry called this decision of Poland “unprecedented and provocative”.
In April, the OSCE stated this closes the special monitoring mission in Ukraine. The organization made such a decision after the Russian Federation in March blocked the extension of the mission’s mandate.
From July 1st the Ukrainian office of the project coordinator also stopped working OSCE due to the fact that Russia did not agree on the extension of the OSCE mandate in Ukraine. The office has been operating in Ukraine for 23 years. Its employees were engaged in humanitarian and legal support for victims of hostilities, fighting human trafficking, the organization said.
On September 29, it became known that the OSCE will continue to carry out the project activities in Ukraine.
On October 27, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to international organizations in Vienna, Evgeny Tsymbalyuk, during a meeting of the Permanent Council of the OSCE, stated that Russia’s actions in the war against Ukraine fall within the definition of genocide. According to him, every week of the Russian war of conquest brings more and more news of destruction and death.
November 24 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky urged the OSCE condemn the war unleashed by Russia and not give the aggressor his platform for speeches.
