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.

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

The foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have said that they will join Ukraine in its boycott of this week's OSCE ministerial meeting in Skopje due to the attendance of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

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