Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry says it has given permission to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's plane to cross its airspace en route to North Macedonia's capital, Skopje, where he is to attend a November 29-December 1 meeting of the Council of Ministers of the OSCE.

The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states and of Ukraine say they will boycott a meeting by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe being held this week in North Macedonia

Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania on Tuesday said their foreign ministers would boycott a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in North Macedonia this week because Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov intends to take part.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s foreign ministers have objected to the presence of Russia’s Sergei Lavrov in Skopje.