Conflict in Ukraine disrupting entire generation of children, says UNICEF

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Conflict in Ukraine disrupting entire generation of children, says UNICEF

Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 750 schools have been damaged.

On Thursday, according to media reports and the Ukrainian Government, shells fired by separatists in the east, hit and damaged a kindergarten in the Luhansk region. There were no reported casualties.

Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been
a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over
the past eight years. We call on all parties to
respect the Safe Schools Declaration and protect
children and their families from attacks.
#NotATarget https://t.co/QM57QM0mzL
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) February 17, 2022

In a statement, the UN agency said that attacks on schools – since fighting began in the eastern region between Government forces and mostly pro-Russian separatists in 2014 – have been disrupting access to education for thousands of children on both sides of the contact line.

Mine contamination

Furthermore, the agency said children in eastern Ukraine live in one of the world’s most mine-contaminated stretches of land. “Every day, they live, play, and go to and from school in areas littered with landmines, unexploded ordnances, and other deadly explosive remnants of war”.

Highlighting that the conflict has taken a severe toll on the psychosocial wellbeing of an entire generation of children, UNICEF called on all parties to protect children and their caregivers from attacks.

Safe School Declaration

Calling on all parties to respect the Safe School Declaration, the agency added that protection must be provided to keep children and their caregivers safe, regardless of the circumstances they might find themselves in.

According to recent data, for children living in conflict, education has become even more dangerous. In 2020, there were 535 verified attacks on schools, an increase of 17 per cent compared to 2019.

The Safe Schools Declaration which opened for State endorsement in Oslo, Norway, in May 2015, is a commitment to better protect students, teachers, schools and universities during armed conflict, to support the continuation of education during war, and to put in place concrete measures to deter the military use of schools.

To date, 111 States have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration. Ukraine did so in November 2019.

“Educational facilities should remain a safe space where children can be protected from threats and crises and a haven where they can learn, play, and grow to their full potential”, the statement reiterated. “A child’s right to education cannot be safeguarded in conflict settings without education itself being protected”, UNICEF underlined.

UNICEF on the ground

Since the onset of the conflict, the UN agency has been on the ground across eastern Ukraine, delivering psychosocial support and mine risk education to over 180,000 children, youth, and caregivers.

UNICEF is also supporting repairs to damaged schools and kindergartens and distributing vital classroom supplies such as educational kits, furniture sets and sports equipment.

Reiterating its commitment to continue to work with conflict-affected communities to provide much needed humanitarian support, UNICEF said that it will continue to address the urgent needs of the most vulnerable children and families.

Waltham ‘Little Queer Library’ Owners Say They’re Being Targeted Over LGBT Books

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Waltham ‘Little Queer Library’ Owners Say They’re Being Targeted Over LGBT Books

WALTHAM (CBS) – The battle over books in Waltham continues as LGBT literature comes front and center for those in support and against its messages.

For the second time in two weeks, the “Little Queer Library” in Waltham had all its LGBT literature cleared out, but the curators don’t believe the books are going to their intended readers.
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Katie Cohen and her partner Krysta Petrie opened the ‘Little Library’ in front of their home on Trapelo Road.

Cohen and Petrie have supplied the library themselves since they created it in 2020. The couple decided to gear their books toward LGBT youth after hearing feedback from the community.

“We realized there was really limited ways to get those books,” said Cohen. “They are hard to find, they are often expensive, and a lot of people are looking for that kind of representation. They are looking for themselves on the pages.”

Little Queer Library on Trapelo Rd in Waltham (WBZ-TV)

Waltham Police said they are looking into this but stop short of saying anything criminal happened considering the books are free to check out.
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It’s a point that Cohen and Petrie are not buying.

“They only pulled the things that were focused on LGBT people or about LGBT people,” Cohen said. “It really does feel like someone is trying to censor what’s out there.”

“You can only read so many books at a time,” said Petrie, who added that there are other ‘Little Libraries’ in the area too. “We have maybe five or six in a one-mile radius and none of them had these kinds of issues.”

On the same day of the second swiping of books, the Waltham School Committee heard a recommendation from their Library Materials Review Committee on whether two LGBT themed books – ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ by Maia Kobabe and “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson – should be pulled from public school shelves.

That committee voted unanimously to keep the books, which some in the community deemed too sexual or pornographic in nature.

Following the first incident, Cohen and Petrie said they had received nearly 200 book donations from the community for the “Little Queer Library.”
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The couple told WBZ News they have no plans of scaling back the library.

Time to ‘seriously de-escalate’ tensions over Ukraine, Guterres tells Munich conference

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Time to ‘seriously de-escalate’ tensions over Ukraine, Guterres tells Munich conference

With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not happen” – although if it did, “it would be catastrophic”.

Addressing world leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Friday – amid an intense spike in shelling in eastern Ukraine by opposing sides, and a concentration of Russian troops around the country’s borders – Mr Guterres said that it was high time to “seriously de-escalate” the crisis.

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“There is no alternative to diplomacy,” the UN chief said, adding that “all issues, including the most intractable, must be addressed through diplomatic frameworks”.

Quoting from the United Nations Charter, which Mr. Guterres defended as a fundamental pillar of international law, he said that all nations “shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means, in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered”.

All parties should be “extremely careful with their rhetoric”, the UN Secretary-General continued, after noting that the threat to global security today “is more complex and probably higher” than during the Cold War.

During that era, Mr. Guterres explained that safeguards and safety checks existed to allow nations to prevent crises by using “back-channels”.

Escalation danger

Today however, “many of those systems no longer exist and most of the people trained to use them are no longer here”, he insisted, while “miscommunication or miscalculation can make a minor incident between powers, escalate out of control”.

More than 100 foreign ministers were also due to attend the annual summit in the German city, although Russia’s foreign minister was reportedly not in attendance.

Two coups a week

Turning away from Ukraine, the UN Secretary-General underlined the increased unpredictability and fragility of the global landscape, including in Yemen and Libya.

“Coups used to happen once every couple of years; in 2022, it’s once every couple of weeks”, he said, as he called for intractable geopolitical divides to be contained by “more effective collective security responses”, for which the blueprint is outlined in Our Common Agenda.

Turning to the worldwide threat of global terrorism, Mr. Guterres insisted that the situation in some African countries was “unsustainable…we need robust African peace enforcement and counter-terrorist operations, mandated by the UN Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter, and with stable and predictable funding”.

Peace investment

Rising inequality, the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic also threatened global security, the UN chief said, before urging all countries to step up support for solutions to these threats, as part of a surge in “diplomacy…political will and…investment for peace”.

Urgent actions that were needed now to these “non-traditional security threats” included the full implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change to keep 1.5 degrees alive, support for the the World Health Organization global vaccination strategy and global finance reform, “to enable developing countries to access the resources needed to support their people”.

European countries where the vaccine pass is being abandoned

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Covid-19: In Europe but also worldwide: this week, all regions have seen their situation improve: -41% in the US/Canada area, -30% in Africa, -26% in Latin America/Caribbean, -13% in Asia, -9% in Europe and -2% in the Middle East.

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022, Austria announced that it will no longer be necessary to show a vaccination pass at the entrance to hotels, restaurants, concerts and sporting events.

Germany, more cautious than its neighbors, is preparing to relax the restrictions introduced to contain the Covid-19 epidemic in February 2022, as health authorities consider that the worst of the Omicron wave has passed.

The phasing out is to be done in three stages, starting with an end to the measures governing meetings in private settings for people vaccinated or cured of Covid-19. The obligation to show a vaccination pass could then be partially or totally removed.

Portugal announces the end of the health pass and most restrictions
“Faced with a situation of pandemic in very significant fall, it was decided an update of the measures still in force,” said Mariana Vieira da Silva, government spokeswoman, at a press conference after a council of ministers.

When these new rules go into effect, a health pass will no longer be required to enter restaurants, tourist establishments or major events.

Displaying a complete vaccination schedule will nevertheless always be required at the Portuguese borders.

Un test négatif ne sera plus requis pour se rendre dans les bars et les boîtes de nuit, mais continuera d’être demandé pour entrer dans les maisons de retraite.

Switzerland announced on Wednesday 16 February the lifting of almost all measures to control Covid-19, with only the masking of public transport and health facilities and the isolation of patients being maintained until the end of March.

As of February 17, access to stores, restaurants, cultural institutions, establishments open to the public and events is again possible without a mask or Covid certificate, the Federal Council (government) said in a statement. The requirement for permits for large events, restrictions on private meetings, and capacity restrictions in retail outlets and ski lifts have also been lifted.

Other European countries have already put an end, hopefully definitively, to the vaccine or health pass. This is the case in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Croatia and the Spanish region of Catalonia.

Israel ends the use of the health pass
The country was one of the first to introduce a health pass. The pass was not required for access to cafes, restaurants and sports halls, but it was required in cinemas and concert halls.

The Israeli government must also decide in the coming days on the abandonment of the requirement of a PCR test, in order to enter the country, currently open to foreign travelers, said the Prime Minister.

Japan will ease border restrictions to allow foreign students and workers into the country, but tourists will remain banned for now, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Thursday.

Rule of law: MEPs travel to Poland to assess respect of EU values

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An EP delegation will travel to Warsaw next week to look into the rule of law situation in Poland, in the framework of the ongoing Article 7 procedure.

Ten MEPs from the Civil Liberties and Constitutional Affairs committees will be in Poland from Monday 21 to Wednesday 23 February.

During their visit, in addition to long-standing concerns related to the rule of law, MEPs will look into institutional questions arising from the Polish Constitutional Court’s recent decision that national constitutional law takes primacy over the EU Treaties.

The delegation has requested to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński and the Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. They have also scheduled exchanges of views with representatives of political parties both in the Sejm and the Senate, as well as with the National Council for the Judiciary.

As the independence of the judiciary is one of the main concerns regarding rule of law in the country, MEPs will also have meetings with professional associations of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, individual judges and prosecutors affected by disciplinary or criminal proceedings, and former members of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Tribunal.

In order to gather civil society’s views about the state of democracy and the respect of fundamental rights and minorities, they will meet a wide array of NGOs working in the field of rule of law, justice, women’s rights, migration, and LGBTI rights. Finally, and in view of alleged risks to media freedom, they will hear from several media representatives. They will also look into the latest revelations over the use of the Pegasus spyware.

Members of the delegation

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs:

Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D, ES)
Konstantinos Arvanitis (The Left, EL)
Lukas Mandl (EPP, AT)
Terry Reintke (Greens/EFA, DE)
Róża Thun und Hohenstein (Renew, PL)
Beata Kempa (ECR, PL)

Committee on Constitutional Affairs:

Othmar Karas (EPP, AT)
Gabriel Bischoff (S&D, DE)
Gerolf Annemans (ID, BE)
Daniel Freund (Greens/EFA, DE).

You can check here a detailed programme of the delegation.

Press conference in Warsaw

At the end of their visit, there will be a press conference with the co-chairs in the European Parliament Liaison Office in Warsaw, and remotely, on Wednesday 23 February at 14.15. Details on how to attend will be communicated closer to the date.

Background

In view of possible democratic backsliding in Poland and in particular due to the threat to judicial independence, the European Commission initiated in December 2017 an Article 7 procedure to address a possible risk of breach of EU common values. The Parliament has ever since repeatedly asked the Council to act and in September 2020 warned about the continuous deterioration of the situation in the country, pointing to “overwhelming evidence” of those breaches.

Following the October 2021 ruling by the Polish Constitutional, the Polish government’s challenge of the established primacy of EU law was added to Parliament’s long list of concerns. These include the powers to revise the constitution taken on by the Polish parliament since 2015, expedited legislative procedures and electoral law changes; the broad changes to the country’s judiciary, including appointments and disciplinary procedures; the situation of freedom of expression, media freedom and pluralism; and the criminalisation of sexual education and the de facto ban on abortion.

The global mRNA technology transfer hub

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18 February 2022

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On the podium the participants of the 6th Eu-African union summit

Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference on the global mRNA technology transfer hub

Thank you very much.

Indeed, I think that this is a symbol today for the new partnership we have embarked on. And we have been, indeed, talking a lot about producing mRNA vaccines in Africa. But I think that this goes far beyond. This is mRNA technology designed in Africa, led by Africa, and owned by Africa, with the support of Team Europe. And indeed, we are so deeply convinced of the potential you, dear Cyril, were just describing, that, from the very first moment on, we have backed this initiative without any hesitation, and teamed up with you and the WHO to set up this technology transfer hub. I think that the emphasis has to be on ‘technology transfer’.

We invest EUR 40 million, as the Commission, with Germany, France and Belgium, because we are deeply convinced that it is the right way to go. And indeed, I consider this not only as a major step forward in the fight against the pandemic but also as a major step forward in Africa’s strategic sovereignty when it comes to vaccines. We all know the state of play today. Today, of all the vaccines administered in Africa, 1% is produced in Africa – of all the vaccines. And rightly so, the goal is in 2040 to have reached a level of 60% of vaccines produced in Africa, that are administered in Africa. And this is the precondition.

And here, indeed, I think, dear Cyril, that it is important that, as you said, we limit with this technology transfer the profitability of the IP owners, that is the companies – that was the point you were blaming – while protecting a very precious good. And this is the intellectual property, what scientists have developed. And here, I think that we can find a bridge.

The goal is really to make sure that the technology is transferred, and dismantled, and shown in full scope. And for that, we think that compulsory licencing with limited, deeply cut profits might be a bridge. I see, too, that at the technology transfer hub, at the moment being, we are not there yet because I heard very well that, you, Dr Tedros, my friend, said: ‘publicly available information’. This is not enough. There needs to be the in-depth information about a technology. So we have a common goal. I think that we are able to manage to create the regulatory frame that is necessary to really make it happen that the strategic sovereignty of Africa concerning vaccines is being developed and given.

There is a second point that is outstanding with this hub and spoke model, that is that it is not only about science, it is a lot about skills, it is about high-quality jobs. And indeed, it was mentioned, it is about the regulatory environment for the whole of Africa, that the African Union, for example, is now developing with the African Medicines Agency and the African CDC. You see the complexity of the project. You see the groundbreaking initiative, a completely new approach towards an attitude where the sovereignty of science is given and is protected, while Africa has full access and full ownership – this is so important – of the technology and then the goods that come from that. So many thanks for that. It is a perfect example of what we are able to do when we join forces.

Thank you.

Plenary highlights: EU-Russia, rule of law, fighting cancer

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Plenary highlights: EU-Russia, rule of law, fighting cancer | News | European Parliament

The military threat posed by Russia, respect for the rule of law in the EU and the fight against cancer were key topics during February’s plenary session.

Russia’s military threat against Ukraine

In a plenary debate with European Council president Charles Michel, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, MEPs said the Russian military build-up around Ukraine posed a threat to peace in Europe and called for a united response from the EU. Political group leaders also released a statement in support of Ukraine.

Later on Wednesday, Parliament approved a €1.2 billion macro-financial loan to help Ukraine meet its financial needs.

Rule of law

MEPs welcomed on Wednesday afternoon the ruling of the European Court of Justice, which upheld the validity of EU rules providing that member states in breach of the rule of law can face suspension of EU payments. Now that the legal challenges by Hungary and Poland have been dismissed, MEPs expect the European Commission to act quickly to apply the rules and protect the EU budget.

Fight against cancer

MEPs adopted recommendations on Wednesday, prepared by the special committee on beating cancer, which aim to improve prevention, treatment and research of the disease and strengthen the role of the EU in this field. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the EU.

Euro anniversary

A ceremony on Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of euro notes and coins into circulation. “The euro is about European integration, unity, stability, identity, solidarity,” said Parliament President Roberta Metsola. The ceremony was followed by a discussion with Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, on the state of the EU economy and the bank’s policy.

New rules for toy safety

MEPs proposed on Wednesday an update of toy safety rules to make sure that toys sold on the EU market, including toys imported from other countries, are safe and sustainable. Parliament wants improvements in market surveillance by member states and stricter requirements for the use of chemical substances in toys.

Pegasus spyware

The reported use of the information-harvesting Pegasus software by EU governments to spy on journalists, politicians and others was discussed in a plenary debate on Tuesday. MEPs argued that Parliament should set up an inquiry committee to look into the matter.

Colombia

Speaking in front of the Parliament on Tuesday, Colombian President Iván Duque welcomed the EU’s support for the peace process in his country and called for closer cooperation between Europe and Latin America.

Road charges

Under updated rules approved by Parliament on Thursday, member states should phase out vignettes for lorries travelling on Trans-European Network roads by 2030. Countries will have the choice to either apply no charges at all or shift to a distance-based scheme that takes into account the actual road use by vehicles and is therefore more environment-friendly.

Carcinogens at work

MEPs adopted stricter worker protection rules on Thursday that require limiting exposure at the workplace to substances that might cause cancer, mutations or fertility problems.

Offshore renewables

In a report approved on Tuesday, MEPs set out recommendations on how to deploy offshore renewable energy sources more quickly in order to meet EU emission reduction targets. They argued that offshore wind farms could be beneficial to marine biodiversity if built sustainably and called for shorter procedures to get permits.

Centers for people at risk in Bulgaria are closing due to high electricity bills

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The Bulgarian Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva sent a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Asen Vassilev, the Minister of Social Affairs Georgi Gokov and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Labor, Social and Demographic Policy Iskren Arabadjiev, warning that more than 24 NGOs providing social services assistance because they cannot cover their costs for electricity, natural gas and salaries. This was announced by the press center of the public defender.

Thus, in practice, the normal functioning of this type of service is threatened and there is a real risk of deteriorating support for thousands of vulnerable people.

Kovacheva emphasizes that the organizations are worried because the approved Standards for the activities delegated by the state with natural and value indicators in 2021, as well as the implemented projects under the Operational Programs, do not provide for an increase in electricity and natural gas prices turn out to be extremely insufficient for the normal functioning of social services. And the received compensations of BGN 110 per megawatt-hour were granted only for October and November last year, but not for the following months.

Another problem with the financing of the activities is the lack of funds set aside to cover the costs and increase the salaries from January 1, 2022 of those working in the social sphere, as provided by the Ordinance on the standards for remuneration of employees provision of social services financed from the state budget.

“The current standards do not provide the necessary funds, and the high prices of electricity and natural gas do not allow for redistribution of funds in other areas, including the updating of salaries,” said Diana Kovacheva. She adds that there is a real risk that a significant number of employees will leave the system or file lawsuits against service providers for non-compliance with their legal obligations.

“Users of social services over the age of 18, whose charges for January 2022 will already be calculated on the basis of new electricity and natural gas prices, will also be seriously affected. This means that there will be an increase in fees with between 30% and 40%, which will be an unbearable burden for vulnerable people, such as people with disabilities and low-income older people, “the ombudsman said.

That is why Kovacheva insists on urgent actions to ensure the normal functioning of social services and guarantee the rights of both users and those working in the system.

Stockholm Ministerial: Lavrov and Blinken meet as 100,000 Russian troops mass near Ukraine

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Stockholm Ministerial: Lavrov and Blinken meet as 100,000 Russian troops mass near Ukraine — Stockholm City Hall, venue of the 2021 OSCE Ministerial Council.

Stockholm — Foreign ministers of the OSCE’s 57 participating states gathered in Stockholm this week with one subject overshadowing everything else: the Russian military build-up along Ukraine’s borders, and whether Europe’s largest security organisation can still do the job it was built for.

The meeting, on 2 and 3 December under Sweden’s chairmanship, brought Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken into the same room — their first encounter since Washington began warning publicly that some 100,000 Russian troops with heavy equipment are positioned within reach of Ukraine. Both men held bilateral talks on the margins, and both left with their positions unchanged.

Blinken warned of ‘severe consequences’ if Russia invades; Lavrov accused NATO of pulling Ukraine into its orbit and demanded legally binding guarantees against the alliance’s expansion. In the hall, minister after minister lined up behind Kyiv’s sovereignty and the principle that borders in Europe cannot be changed by force — the principle on which the organisation’s founding document, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, rests.

Sweden’s chair, Foreign Minister Ann Linde, had hoped the ministerial would agree a new European security dialogue and revive arms control discussions hollowed out by the collapse of Cold War treaties. Consensus on a declaration proved impossible, as it has at most ministerials for a decade, though Sweden salvaged agreement on a handful of practical measures and kept the dialogue proposal alive.

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, used his speech to call for deterrence and sanctions packages to be prepared now, not after a possible invasion — a request some delegations privately considered premature. Few in Stockholm, diplomats said, believed war was inevitable; fewer still were willing to rule it out.

The OSCE’s most tangible asset in the crisis is already on the ground: its Special Monitoring Mission, several hundred unarmed observers reporting daily on the ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine. As ministers flew home from Stockholm, the question hanging over the Hofburg in Vienna was whether that mission is about to become the only channel left.

Media-Society.com is a press network association based in Spain, founded in 2020. More at www.media-society.com.

At the frozen edge of the EU, the OSCE looks for a role in the Belarus-Poland border crisis

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At the frozen edge of the EU, the OSCE looks for a role in the Belarus-Poland border crisis — The Kuźnica border crossing between Poland and Belarus.

Vienna — Thousands of migrants remain trapped in freezing conditions on the Belarusian-Polish border this weekend, as the OSCE comes under pressure to find a role in a crisis that sits squarely in its territory and largely outside its tools.

The standoff at the Kuźnica crossing and nearby forest strips, where people — many of them from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan — are caught between Belarusian forces pushing them west and Polish forces pushing them back, has become the most dangerous humanitarian emergency on the European Union’s external frontier this year. Several deaths have been reported on both sides; temperatures are falling toward minus figures at night.

The EU and NATO accuse Alexander Lukashenko’s government of manufacturing the crisis by funnelling migrants to the border in retaliation for sanctions — a charge Minsk denies. Poland has declared a state of emergency in the border zone, barring journalists and most aid workers, and has sent thousands of soldiers. Belarus, for its part, has staged limited aid deliveries and threatened to cut gas transit to Europe.

The OSCE’s secretary general, Helga Maria Schmid, has offered the organisation’s good offices and called for humanitarian access and the protection of migrants’ rights under international law. The organisation has a mission in neither country anymore — its office in Minsk was closed in 2011, and Poland hosts no field presence — leaving it dependent on member states for even basic information from the zone.

Diplomats in Vienna acknowledge the bind. The border is exactly the kind of hard-security-humanitarian hybrid the OSCE exists for, yet the organisation can act only by consensus of states that include both Belarus and Poland, and both prefer other forums: Warsaw leans on NATO, Minsk on Moscow.

What the crisis has already demonstrated is the cost of the OSCE’s shrunken footprint. A decade ago its monitors and liaison offices tracked frontier tensions across the region. This week, on one of Europe’s most militarised borders, the best it could offer was a statement — and a reminder that the people in the forest are running out of time for formats and mandates to be debated.

Media-Society.com is a press network association based in Spain, founded in 2020. More at www.media-society.com.

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