Finland, as the OSCE Chair, is preparing "inter-meetings" within the organization for the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at the XI International Scientific and Expert Forum "Primakov Readings".
"Consensus as an integral basis for the functioning of the structure is also an OSCE rule. In the same way, the heads of the OSCE Secretariat and the countries from the European Union and NATO that come to the chairmanship violate this in the grossest way, which is what Finland is doing now as the OSCE Chairman, preparing a certain event in August dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act and not disclosing its plan. According to our information, some cell events are being prepared, some inter-gatherings," the minister said.
As Lavrov stressed, "no discussions about where the policy of the West has taken us within the framework of the OSCE members are expected."
"It's just that the Finns will then write some kind of final document, they will loudly celebrate the anniversary all over the world. The fact that not all countries of the world, even the overwhelming majority of countries of the world, do not like these trends at all, the attempts of the West to rewrite history, this was most vividly evidenced by the participation of many dozens of leaders of the leading states of the global majority in events on the occasion of the Great Victory on May 9 this year at the Red Square," the Russian Foreign Minister said, quoted by TASS.