ASTANA, November 7. /TASS/. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is facing a severe crisis caused by the West and may not survive it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with students of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

According to him, Russia and Kazakhstan continue their cooperation in the OSCE as well. "Needless to say, the OSCE is going through a profound crisis right now. I am not sure whether it [the OSCE] will endure, given the actions the West has taken in violation of all the statutory documents of this organization in an attempt to undermine and discard the principle of consensus and impose its unilateral, primarily Russophobic views on the OSCE," Russia's top diplomat said.

He emphasized that as long as the organization exists, Russia and Kazakhstan will continue to "closely coordinate their actions there."