Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), warned that the OSCE, which, when it was created in 1975, had the purpose of facilitating peace, is now an instrument of “hybrid war against Russia.” When speaking before a regular meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, Polyansky proposed the need to create “a pan-continental security architecture, open for all Eurasian countries,” reported TASS June 25. The OSCE has 57 members and 11 partners
Polyansky asserted, “European leaders need to understand that the regional security model in Europe, which took decades to build starting from the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, has been destroyed with their own hands. There is no coming back to it.” Because the European oligarchy is leading a drive for military build-up and war, the Russian diplomat continued, “We consider it our duty to prevent our continent from plunging into a new major war, the pace of which is gathering momentum before our eyes. This is exactly what we should be focusing on first and foremost in this hall, within the walls of this organization, which once held great promise until the West began using it as an instrument of its hybrid war against Russia. As a result, today it is, to be frank, a half-dead body, stripped of any positive agenda and its original significance.”
