Russia proposes to discuss humanitarian issues in the OSCE, Polyansky said

Russia proposes to discuss humanitarian issues within the framework of the OSCE, which are usually left out of the events of Western countries, said Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky.

“To confirm this, to prove our commitment to the principles of dialogue, we took the initiative to hold the Vienna Discussions on October 21 in a hybrid format on various issues of the humanitarian dimension of the OSCE, including those that usually remain outside the brackets of events organized by Western countries,” the diplomat told the Izvestia newspaper.

The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation clarified to the publication that the topics of discussion on October 21 will be the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of minors, the fight against religious intolerance, countering the glorification of the Nazis and their accomplices, and neo-Nazism. In addition, chauvinism and aggressive nationalism, discrimination against national minorities, as well as international monitoring of election processes in the OSCE area will be discussed.

Earlier it was reported that Poland, by not granting a visa to the delegation of the International Peacekeeping Movement “Women’s Dialogue”, actually blocked the organization’s speech at the OSCE conference in person. After this, according to the head of the movement, Elena Semerikova, the organization denied her the right to speak online, citing the lack of such practice.