MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. The crisis in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is very deep, because the West has opted not to listen to Russia for many years, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky said on the air of Solovyov. Live.
Commenting on the visit to Moscow and talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu, he noted that the conversation was "quite interested, very respectful."
"But this visit showed that despite a really interested conversation, the crisis in the OSCE area is too deep. For too many years, Western countries have not heard us and have brought the situation to such a level and to such a depth that it will be very difficult to get out of this hole now," Polyansky said.
When asked about the intensification of contacts from Western colleagues, he said that "European neighbors on the continent have really begun to understand they can be sidelined in the Ukrainian settlement.
"It is clear that the West is now trying to integrate itself into the ongoing efforts on Ukrainian regulation. In other words, they have begun to realize that the efforts that are being made are being made without them. And if Europe is absolutely passive here, then it can simply stay away from these processes, as many predict and warn," he specified.
