Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov faced Western critics while attending international security talks Thursday in N

BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) -Member countries are divided over the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's annual foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday with Baltic nations and Ukraine refusing to attend over the presence of Russia's Sergei Lavrov.

The OSCE is not the only international body where the West and Russia meet. Lavrov still attends Group of 20 events around the world and the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Skopje on Thursday,

The Ukrainian delegation walked out of the OSCE ministerial meeting in Skopje when Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, began to speak. Source: European Pravda correspondent SCREENSHOT: EUROPEAN PRAVDA The entire Ukrainian delegation left the room when the Russian minister began his speech.

Lavrov told a meeting of OSCE ministers in North Macedonia that the organisation was an "appendage" of NATO and the EU, before walking out.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that he doubts it is expedient to continue the work of the OSCE. Source: Lavrov at the OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Skopje, European Pravda reports In his speech,