DISINFO: The OSCE has turned into London’s proxy
SUMMARY
The large-scale Ukrainian crisis made it clear that the OSCE fell short of finding solutions to international conflicts in Europe. Russia’s absence at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Winter Meeting of 22-23 February 2024 is a sign of an Europe's increasingly collapsing security architecture. The OSCE has turned into a proxy unit promoting the interests of Global London. It now resembles the spearhead of a Teutonic Order knight, backed by a British banker. Furthermore, the collective West’s most beneficial scenario lies in broadening the Ukrainian crisis and dragging Belarus into the military conflict under the shield of the OSCE. Hence, the OSCE is actually killing security.
RESPONSE
This is a mix of conspiracies and false claims aimed to discredit the OSCE which repeatedly condemned Russia for the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. For instance, on 26 May 2023, OSCE leaders condemned Russia’s ongoing missile attacks on Ukraine saying, "We reiterate our call to the Russian Federation to immediately put an end to the attacks, stop violating international law, and uphold the principles and commitments of the OSCE." In a statement of 24 February 2024, OSCE leaders called on Russia to immediately stop its war against Ukraine and to respect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organisation comprising 57 member states in Europe, North America, and Asia with equal voting rights. Russia is known for frequently using a veto that each member state has to block many key OSCE decisions. OSCE decision-making bodies and activities are described in detail on the organisation’s website. The claim that the organisation backs the interests of the so-called “Global London” makes no sense. The “Global London” seemingly refers to an imagined influential western deep state. This meaning was conveyed in one of our past cases which alleged that London-based headquarters organise colour revolutions in Belarus, Myanmar, Russia, and the US.
Discrediting international institutions by calling them puppets and accusing them of having an anti-Russian bias is a frequent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative. See other examples in our database, such as claims that international organisations like the UN are servile US tools, that the West employed hybrid warfare against Russia in the UN General Assembly, that OSCE is a criminal organisation that is in favour of war in Donbas, and that European Court of Human Rights turns into a political tool against Russia.