OSCE Gets Underway w/Russia's Lavrov In Attendance

The annual Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is now underway in the North Macedonian capital Skopje. The meeting of OSCE foreign ministers has garnered attention due to the attendance of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, making a rare visit to a NATO member state.

• The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are all boycotting the event due to Lavrov's attendance while the Polish and Ukrainian foreign ministers refused to participate in the plenary session attended by Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken attended the working dinner on 29 Nov but had left for Israel by the time Lavrov arrived.
• Politico: "Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis [...] “I think the most important thing is that the message is already sent: That we’re not getting back to business as usual — which was my biggest worry,” [...]. “All of us sitting at the same table with Lavrov would mean normalization,” he said. “Sitting down [with] Lavrov to discuss the security of Europe … sounds ironic, if not sad.”
• On 29 Nov, Russian Foreign Ministry spox Maria Zakharova claimed that "...there are a lot of requests for bilateral meetings [with Lavrov], There will be multilateral meetings in multilateral formats, and bilateral meetings are planned as well,"
• Livestream of plenary sessions here.