Steinmeier proposes unofficial meeting of OSCE foreign ministers on Sept 1

Agreements have been reached to hold meetings, "starting from UK's foreign secretary Boris Johnson to many ministers," Klimkin said. An unofficial OSCE ministerial meeting is always a very good occasion to talk, and talk very candidly," he said. "Russia is trying to block the whole OSCE logic entirely," Klimkin said. "Russia is blocking what's happening in Vienna, the work of the Office for democratic institutions and human rights... and blocking all the other OSCE institutions, for example that of its representative on freedom of the media. So we must reload this Russian pressure to enable the OSCE to continue working," the minister noted.