A meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's parliamentary assembly got underway Thursday without the Ukrainian delegation, which described the planned presence of Russian lawmakers as 'an affront.'
A meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's parliamentary assembly got underway Thursday without the Ukrainian delegation, which described the planned presence of Russian lawmakers as "an affront."
The Vienna-based OSCE, whose 57 member states include both Ukraine and Russia, was created during the Cold War as a platform for dialogue between East and West. "I do sympathize with the fact that some members find it unbearable to sit in the same room as the aggressors," the parliamentary assembly's president, Margareta Cederfelt, told the opening session. "But for those present today, this is your opportunity to stand up for Ukraine and to confront the lies from the aggressors."
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