OSCE logoVIENNA, 14 Feb, by Margarita Kostiv. Russia will not participate in the OSCE meeting, requested by the Baltic countries, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, told RIA Novosti.
"We are not participating in this meeting today", Gavrilov told RIA Novosti.< /p>Poland, the OSCE chairmanship, said on Sunday that the Baltic states have asked it to hold a meeting with Belarus and other countries in connection with «unusual military activity.» As RIA Novosti was told in the Polish chairmanship, the meeting will be held on Monday, the start is scheduled for 17.00 Moscow time. At the same time, they did not answer whether Belarus would take part in the meeting, redirecting the question to the delegation of Minsk. The Representation of Belarus to the OSCE has so far left the corresponding request to RIA Novosti unanswered.