"I don't think it should have happened," Steve Cohen, a Democratic Party congressman from Tennessee and a member of the U.S. Ukraine and Lithuania have said they will boycott the meeting and almost half of the OSCE's member nations - including the United States - had called for Austria not to issue visas to the Russian lawmakers, with some threatening to avoid the meeting as well. The move, which Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said had to be taken as his country was obliged by diplomatic protocol to allow participants from member countries to attend the meeting, immediately raised the ire of many in the OSCE. lawmakers say Austria erred by issuing visas to the Russian delegation - all of whom are under European Union sanctions due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine - for this week's meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, but it's unlikely a massive boycott of the meeting by the group's 57 nations will occur.Īustria stirred a controversy ahead of the February 23-24 gathering when it said it would grant travel documents to 18 Russian deputies to attend the winter session of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly, which coincides with the first anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. However, many social networks have remained blocked despite the president's criticism. President Shavkat Mirziyoev publicly criticized the move at the time and sacked Information Technologies and Communications Minister Shuhrat Sodiqov, adviser Olimjon Umarov, and chief of the Uzkomnazorat media regulator, Golibsher Ziyaev. The move caused an international and domestic outcry. In November Telegram, Facebook, YouTube, and Odnoklassniki were also blocked on the same grounds. Uzbek officials blocked the social networks along with Skype in July 2021, citing a law on personal data that requires the local storage of data from users in Uzbekistan. The presidential agency of information and mass communications said on August 1 that talks on possible unblocking another social media application, TikTok, are under way with the company's representatives. TASHKENT - Uzbek authorities have allowed access to social media platforms Twitter, VKontakte, and WeChat more than a year after they were blocked in the Central Asian nation.
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