Russian envoy describes OSCE as 'half-dead' body lacking any constructive agenda

VIENNA, June 25. /TASS/. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has strayed from its founding mandate, becoming a barely functioning structure with no positive agenda, Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Dmitry Polyansky said.

"We consider it our duty to prevent our continent from plunging into a new major war, the pace of which is gathering momentum before our eyes. This is exactly what we should be focusing on first and foremost in this hall, within the walls of this organization, which once held great promise until the West began using it as an instrument of its hybrid war against Russia. As a result, today it is, to be frank, a half-dead body, stripped of any positive agenda and its original significance," he said at a regular meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council.

"It is now for the Western countries to decide whether it will cease to exist entirely, along with all hopes for peace and cooperation in Europe," the Russian diplomat added. "At this point, they are moving in this direction, rejecting dialogue and escalating confrontation."