New chairmanship of OSCE to lift Anti-Russian sanctions

Friday, 30 December, 2016 - 16:00

Austria will take up the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on January 1 st in 2017. The country is going to lift gradually the Anti-Russian sanctions. Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has reported this information.

Moreover, he stressed the fact that the organization should completely rethink its approach to relations with Moscow.

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