Lavrov Slams OSCE’s Reaction To Kazakhstan's Events As Terrible And Shameful

The way the West, including the OSCE, reacted to the latest events in Kazakhstan was terrible and shameful, Sergey Lavrov said on Channel One’s Great Game program on Thursday.

"Of course, it was a frightful experience to see pogroms, homes set on fire, police officers’ heads cut off, and the way the rioters and terrorists treated journalists. Also, I found it still more fearsome, at least from the standpoint of my professional tasks, to see the way the West reacted to all this, including the reaction of the very same OSCE, which positions itself as one of the key actors in European security affairs. First, that organization reacted to the events in Kazakhstan in a grossly inadequate way, but then eventually tried to call upon one and all for the observance of the rights of journalists, human rights, and so on. It was a real disgrace.

 In such situations the root causes of what has happened must be exposed," Lavrov said.