Ignazio Cassis, Chairman-in-Workplace of the Organisation for Safety and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Swiss International Minister, has stated after visiting Moscow that his nation has assured Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov an unhindered go to to Lugano to take part within the OSCE ministerial assembly.

Supply: Cassis at a press convention on Friday 6 February, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Cassis stated that the participation of the Russian delegation, together with Lavrov, within the OSCE Ministerial Council on 3-4 December in Lugano was mentioned immediately with Lavrov throughout their assembly in Moscow.

He added that the Russians "are prepared to come back to our discussions and even to the ministerial convention if we are able to assure, in fact, the logistics and the safety".

Quote: "I instructed him [Lavrov] that that is what Switzerland can [do] and we demonstrated that we already had been in a position to welcome Madame Matviyenko, President of the Duma, in July final yr with out difficulties. And we are able to assure such venue from some such journey for Minister Lavrov to the ministerial convention in Lugano this yr."

Background:

• After visiting Kyiv and Moscow, Cassis reported that he had introduced three teams of concepts on behalf of the OSCE in each capitals and is now awaiting a response.
• OSCE Secretary Basic Feridun Sinirlioğlu stated after his go to to Moscow that he hopes to see leads to the approaching weeks concerning the discharge of three Ukrainian employees members of the organisation who had been illegally detained by Russia in spring 2022.

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