Top diplomats of Baltics and Ukraine to boycott meeting over Lavrov invitation

Sergei Lavrov is set to travel to Skopje (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states and of Ukraine have said they will boycott a meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) being held this week in North Macedonia, in objection to the participation of Russia’s foreign minister.

The top diplomats of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania issued a joint statement, saying they “deeply regret the decision enabling the personal participation” of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.