Peskov: OSCE is losing its effectiveness

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is losing its effectiveness and ability to de facto deal with the issues it should, believes Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the president of the Russian Federation.

Because of the position taken by the OSCE against Russia, the organization automatically loses its competence, as well as the possibility not in words, but in deeds, to manage security and cooperation issues in Europe’’, the Kremlin spokesman told journalists, as an answer to a question about the probability of Moscow's withdrawal from the OSCE.

According to Peskov, this ,,harms the future of the organization’’.

          Earlier, Kyiv decided to boycott the work of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) until Russia is expelled from the organization. As Rada deputy Yevgenia Kravciuk said, the OSCE should form a unanimous opinion on the war in Ukraine.

,,Today, we, the Ukrainian delegation, are boycotting the activity of the OSCE PA until this international organization forms its attitude towards the participation of the Russians in it’’, the deputy wrote on social networks.

On November 25 of this year, the Standing Committee of the OSCE PA could not decide on the termination of Russia's membership in this organization. The representatives of Estonia and Lithuania have already joined the protests of the Ukrainian delegation on this issue.

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council in Moscow, Vladimir Dzhabarov, said that Poland refused to issue visas to the members of the delegation from the Russian Federation for the session of the OSCE PA in Warsaw. According to him, the refusal was justified by ,,lack of possibility’’.