Several countries' delegations make demarche before Lavrov's speech at OSCE

During Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's speech at an OSCE meeting, a number of delegations exited the auditorium in a demarche. Source: European Pravda Details: It was previously reported that Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, left the OSCE plenary hall prior to Lavrov's remarks.

In the video of his demarche, several more OSCE representatives departed the hall.

Subsequently, Heorhii Tykhyi, the spokesman of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated to European Pravda that representatives from Georgia, Czechia, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia left prior to Lavrov's address. According to him, Czechia, Poland, Latvia, and Georgia made a demarche at the level of foreign ministers, Romania and Estonia - at the level of lower-ranking diplomats, while Lithuania did not attend the OSCE conference at all.

Sybiha also referred to Lavrov as a war criminal at the end of his OSCE statement, according to reports. The foreign ministers of Poland and Czechia, Radoslaw Sikorski and Jan Lipavsky, had previously stated that they would not listen to Lavrov's remarks at an OSCE Council meeting.

Last year, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry was allowed to attend the OSCE ministerial meeting in North Macedonia, which is not yet a member of the EU.

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