Russia's delegation head is under sanctions and Ukraine and Lithuania plan to boycott the OSCE meeting. Read more at straitstimes.com.
VIENNA - In their first trip to the EU since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian MPs are due at an international meeting in Austria on Thursday despite sanctions and a planned boycott by Kyiv.
But Ukraine and European Union member Lithuania have said they would boycott the meeting over the participation of the Russian delegation headed by Mr Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy chairman of the Russian Parliament’s lower house who is under international sanctions. “It is unacceptable to have in common meetings people who are responsible, who voted for this war,” he added.
“The date is very unfortunate,” Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg conceded in an interview with broadcaster ORF ahead of the invasion anniversary.
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