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WASHINGTON, September 29th. / TASS /. Washington deeply regrets Moscow’s actions, which, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, aim to block the human rights meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the US State Department press service quoted him as saying.
“The most important human rights conference of the Europe-Eurasia region should have opened yesterday in Warsaw, Poland. Unfortunately, the implementation meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) 2021 (HDIM) did not take place due to a decision.” the Russian government to block the meeting. We deeply regret this attempt by the Russian government to block the audit of its deteriorating human rights record, “the US chief diplomat said in a statement released by the State Department’s press service.
“The United States still expects the OSCE and its participating States to hold the mandated annual HDIM meetings,” he continued.
Washington will continue, Blinken said, “to do our utmost to shed light on the full range of human rights issues in the OSCE region.”
