MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes it’s time to think about whether the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has outlived its usefulness.
"The OSCE is riddled with problems. Under their weight, it has been pushed to the sidelines of international processes. There is no room for cooperation or security on the Vienna platform. The developers of the HFA [Helsinki Final Act - TASS). This is not how they imagined the future of the pan-European process. It's time to think about whether there is any sense in the continued existence of such an Organization," the minister noted in his article "Half a Century of the Helsinki Act: Expectations, Reality, Prospects," published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to the minister, today the ideas of sovereign equality of nations and mutually respectful dialogue, notions the OSCE no longer promotes, can be found in multilateral cooperation platforms like the CSTO, the CIS, the SCO and other regional associations in Eurasia. "There is no place in them for pushing the interests of one group of countries at the expense of others, the participants' attitude to equal cooperation and the search for a real consensus prevails.
