MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. The plane of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who attended the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje, has returned to Moscow, flying through the airspace of Greece and Turkey, according to the Flightradar24 live flight tracker.

In Skopje, Lavrov attended the plenary session of the OSCE Ministerial Council, held some bilateral talks and a trilateral meeting with the incumbent and incoming OSCE chairpersonships. The top diplomat’s press conference drew more than 100 reporters from around the world and lasted about one hour and 15 minutes.

On Wednesday, Lavrov’s plane took a route through Greece, not Bulgaria, to land in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, for the OSCE Ministerial Council. TASS has learned that Sofia refused to open its airspace to the flight of the top Russian diplomat in case Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova could be onboard. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov slammed Sofia’s decision as "absurd and stupid."