The OSCE is rapidly and openly degrading, moving away from its principles.

APA's Moscow correspondent reports that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this at a joint press conference on the results of his talks with his Belarusian counterpart in Minsk.

"The OSCE is rapidly and clearly degrading, moving further and further away from the higher principles established in the Helsinki Final Act and the documents of the subsequent OSCE summits. I will especially mention the documents on military-political security based on the principles of equal and indivisible security," said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. stressed.

Lavrov recalled that at the OSCE summits in Istanbul in 1999 and in Astana in 2020, the leaders of the participating states agreed that no country would strengthen its security at the expense of violating the security of others, and that no country and any organization within the OSCE region would guarantee military-political security in this region. have signed that they will not claim dominance in the field.

"All these obligations have been violated by our Western colleagues," concluded the Russian minister.