The former OSCE Secretary General spoke about the “small but noisy” anti-Russian minority in the organization
There is a group of countries in the OSCE that is committed to confrontation with the Russian Federation and does not want dialogue with Moscow.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said former OSCE Secretary General, head of the Geneva Center for Security Policy Thomas Greminger, answering the question in what areas constructive cooperation is possible today.
“There is a small but quite vocal minority of OSCE participating states that are not interested in dialogue at all,” Greminger told Kommersant.
However, he refused to name these countries.
"No. Moreover, as director of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, I try to work with all actors. And it would not be in my interests to single out individual states, but it is not so difficult to imagine who we are talking about. This group does not see the value in dialogue and does not consider it necessary to look for areas of common interests and possible cooperation,” the publication’s interlocutor added.
According to him, the majority of participating states still believe that it is necessary to talk to each other and that it makes sense to cooperate in certain areas, despite deep differences on other issues.
“Not all of them liked the term ‘positive agenda’ that I initially used, so I later started saying ‘converging agenda’.” But the main thing here is not the words, but the approach, of course,” summed up Greminger.
As PolitNavigator reported, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry arranged for the OSCE last points in Donbass.
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