US Ambassador to the WHO Michael Carpenter said after the meeting that he was not surprised by the Russian absence.

Russia did not participate in an emergency meeting held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at Ukraine’s request on Tuesday. meeting in Viennato search for explanations for large-scale Russian forces near the Ukrainian border.

“Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the Russian Federation did not come,” Michelle Carpenter, the US ambassador accredited to an organization of 57 member states from Europe, Central Asia and North America, said at the meeting, according to a written summary. Released to the press.

Russia not only refused to acknowledge Ukraine’s legitimate security concerns, but also refused to participate in one of the OSCE’s core activities, risk reduction.

said the ambassador.

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The French mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on behalf of the European Union, called on Moscow in a message on Twitter to “end the crisis and commit to a constructive diplomatic solution.”

On Tuesday, Russia announced the deployment of some hundreds of thousands of its soldiers near the Ukrainian border on Tuesday Return to the barracks.

At the same time, the Russian army will conduct large-scale military exercises in Belarus, which is part of Belarus allied with Moscow, until February 20.

A similar meeting was held earlier at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday, then at the request of the Baltic states.

Prior to the current crisis, fewer than ten such consultations had taken place since the adoption of the Vienna Document on Transparency among the Armies of Member States in 1990.




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