Deutsche Welle | Sergey Lavrov causes friction at OSCE security meeting

His presence alone at the annual ministerial conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, caused friction before the conference even started, leading to a boycott of the event by some members of the organization.

“We have just witnessed another example of this ideological clash of competing narratives at the meeting in Skopje,” Jamie Shea, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, told DW.