ArmInfo. Moscow supports the attitude of Bratislava to the development of an OSCE partnership with other international organizations, including the CSTO, the EAEU, the CIS and the SCO. On February 19 at a joint press conference following talks with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.
According to him, with Lajcak, who arrived in Russia on a working visit as the OSCE Chairperson-in- Office, he conducted meaningful and useful negotiations. "The OSCE, and we agree with this, should energetically contribute to restoring confidence in the Euro-Atlantic area, finding adequate responses to common challenges for all states. In this regard, we spoke in favor of strengthening the unifying potential of the Organization and enhancing its role in international affairs. We are convinced that our common The strategic goal enshrined at the OSCE Summit in Astana in 2010 should remain <building a free, democratic, common and indivisible security community from Vancouver to Vladivostok. . They also discussed the role of the Organization in facilitating the settlement of conflicts in Transnistria and Nagorno- Karabakh. They touched upon the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, the work of the OSCE in the Balkans, primarily in Kosovo, " Lavrov noted.
At the same time, the Russian diplomat confirmed Russia's interest in close cooperation with the Chairperson-in-Office on such key areas for the OSCE as fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and cyber threats, pairing integration processes, protecting traditional values, ensuring the rights of national minorities, primarily religious and linguistic, countering anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia, non-admission of manifestations of neo-Nazism.
We supported the plans of Slovakia to hold events on these and other topics in the current year.
In turn, Lajcak assured that Slovakia intends to use the mandate of the Organization's chairmanship to improve the situation and relations in the OSCE area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. "People affected by conflicts are at the center of our attention. The three priorities at the center of our presidency are conflict prevention and conflict mitigation for the civilian population. Secondly, support for multilateral diplomacy, and thirdly, a secure future," he concluded.