The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Nikita Poturaev, said that the Ukrainian delegation plans to refuse to attend the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) Parliamentary Assembly because of Austria’s stance on issuing visas to Russian representatives. reports TASS.
“We learned that the Austrian authorities are ready to issue visas to members of the Russian delegation and therefore will attend the winter meeting of parliamentarians from the Russian Federation. The only viable solution to preserve the integrity of the Assembly, which will preserve OSCE principles and commitments, is to postpone the meeting. [встречи] The Assembly,” wrote Poturaev in a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly, Margareta Sederfelt.
The next meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Vienna on 23-24 February – it will be devoted, first of all, to the conflict in Ukraine. The previous meeting was held in Warsaw on 24-26 November due to the Russian delegation not being given a visa – but even then the OSCE PA Standing Committee could not decide to end the meeting. Russia’s membership in this organization.
Representatives of 20 countries before He insisted Austria banned Russian participation in the OSCE PA meeting.