Over the first participants in the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Smid), the OSCE in Sweden was infected with coronavirus. This is reported by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, writes TASS.
COVID-19 was revealed from fifteen people from nine countries. The meeting took place in Stockholm on December 2-3. More than 50 heads of foreign policy departments took part in the event, including Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
it specifies that the meeting was organized in accordance with the recommendations of the health management recommendations, and its participants had the opportunity to pass PCR testing. In addition, after completion of the event, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden sent the staff and all participating information on the importance of awareness of symptoms and testing for their presence.
On the fields of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Stockholm, a second per year in full-time meeting of Lavrov and Blinken was held, it lasted 40 minutes. Prior to this, the head of foreign policy agencies saw in May in Reykjavik during the ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council.