Pankin reported on attempts to politicize the BSEC by unfriendly countries. Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov, announced the politicization by the West of the special institutions of the world organization for the sake of reviving a unipolar world.
The Ukrainian side is trying to block any useful initiatives at the B SEC site, Pankin noted. The Russian deputy foreign minister said that work on the site largely remains “frozen”