A contentious Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe parliamentary meeting ended Friday with condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine — as Russian delegates accused the West of preventing dialogue by arming Kyiv.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the 57-nation OSCE brought together lawmakers from member countries — including Russia — to discuss security and human rights issues at its annual winter gathering, which coincided with the anniversary of the invasion.
Ukraine and Lithuania boycotted the meeting in Vienna due to the presence of six Russian delegates, who were given visas by Austria despite being under European Union and United States sanctions. “We think it is immoral to sit in the same hall with war criminals who openly support the genocide of Ukraine,” Yevheniia Kravchuk, a Ukrainian lawmaker from the Servant of the People party, told The Associated Press in Vienna.Kravchuk said Russia had “violated every single letter” of the OSCE’s founding document and should be suspended from the organization.
Russian delegates told reporters in Vienna that their country was crucial to the work of OSCE, which was created during the Cold War and helped to ease tensions between East and West by providing a platform for dialogue.
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