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He pointed out that the perspectives of that organization are not clear.
"In a little more than a year, the Helsinki Final Act will be 50 years old. We regret to say that the OSCE welcomes this anniversary in a sad state, and its prospects are unclear," said Lavrov.

SKOPJE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Matteo Mecacci on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Skopje on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the Macedonian capital late last night, an hour before the arrival of Russia's No. 1 diplomat, Sergey Lavrov. Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel also left Skopje on Wednesday evening to avoid attending today's OSCE meeting, which is also attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Bulgaria has officially granted permission for a plane carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to pass through its airspace on its way to Skopje for an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting scheduled from November 29 to December 1.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he would attend an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in Skopje if Bulgaria allowed his plane into its airspace.

After a three-year and nine-month hiatus, the meeting on confidence building measures (CBMs) between Greece and Turkey took place on Monday in Ankara, with the two countries agreeing to begin the implementation of the previously agreed-upon measures on the list. 

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with an ODIHR mission on Thursday and thanked it for its committed work and support to improvement of electoral conditions in Serbia in the past several years.

TIRANA - Representatives of Western Balkan countries, including Serbian PM Ana Brnabic, signed in Tirana on Tuesday an agreement on mutual recognition of professional qualifications of nurses, veterinary doctors, pharmacists and midwives.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov voiced concerns over the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and noted that OSCE advocated peace and continued dialogue.

"One of the leaders of this terrorist organization is being tried in The Hague," wrote Maria Zakharova, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, in an op-ed for the "Rasiyskaya Gazeta."