The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's annual foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday has split member states, with Baltic nations and Ukraine refusing to attend over the presence of Russia's Sergei Lavrov and urging others to as well.

The OSCE is not the only international body where the West and Russia meet. Lavrov still attends Group of 20 events around the world and the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov faced Western critics while attending international security talks Thursday in Northern Macedonia.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Skopje on Thursday,

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have held a meeting on the sidelines of the meeting of the OSCE Council of foreign ministers in Skopje, where they discussed the "situation in Ukraine".

Lavrov told a meeting of OSCE ministers in North Macedonia that the organisation was an "appendage" of NATO and the EU, before walking out.

U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will participate in the meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), at which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to attend.

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has said that Russia "sees no reason" to reconsider the goals of the war against Ukraine. Source: TASS with reference to Lavrov's statement at a press conference during the OSCE meeting on 1 Quote: "I believe that the leadership of our special military operation (war against Ukraine - ed.