MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, the organization’s decision-making and governing body, is set to take place on December 8-9 in Hamburg, Germany. At the annual meeting the foreign ministers of the 57 OSCE member-states discuss the organization’s activities, as well as regional security issues in general.
"The most significant problems have been observed in the humanitarian dimension of the OSCE. Activities in this sphere are politicized, and unduly high attention is paid to the situation in the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] members and in the Balkans, while obvious human rights problems in the United States and in the European Union are ignored," the ministry said in the statement issued ahead of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting, in which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part.
It is also noted in the statement that Russia prepared draft resolutions on such issues as media pluralism and non-discrimination in sport to be presented at the meeting.
