Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow with Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Feridun Sinirlioglu, TASS reported.

The parties will discuss a wide range of issues related to the work of the Organization and its interaction with Russia.

Former Turkish Foreign Minister Sinirlioglu became the Secretary General of the OSCE on December 6, 2024, replacing Helga Schmid. This will be the Turkish diplomat's first visit to Russia in his new capacity. The previous OSCE Secretary General visited Russia in 2021.

"Recently, as you know, high-level personal contacts with the OSCE leadership have been limited to brief discussions on the sidelines of a number of ministerial events, including the OSCE Ministerial Council. Therefore, the planned meeting will be devoted to discussing both current issues related to the mandate and competencies of the Secretary General, as well as the general state of affairs in the OSCE, which continues to be in a deep existential and institutional crisis, which does not allow it to play a significant role in ensuring security in the region," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said announcing the meeting.

The OSCE is the most representative platform for discussing security issues in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian regions, but Moscow has repeatedly noted that the West's approaches are preventing the organization from fully functioning. "The OSCE is, of course, going through a deep crisis. I do not know whether it will survive or not after the actions that the West has taken in violation of all the statutory documents of this organization in order to undermine and throw out the principle of consensus and try to impose its unilateral, primarily Russophobic approaches on the OSCE," Lavrov noted earlier.