Option to disable/change "Skype Call" keyboard shortcut

Hi I'm using a keyboard layout that uses the key-combination "altgr+r" to write a special character that I use fairly often when chatting with people, this however is the command for "Make Skype Call" in the Skype client so every so often I accidentally make a skype call when chatting with people because of this. Why can't the keyboard shortcut be changed or disabled/removed?! This is incredibly annoying to me and disruptive to people i communicate with.
Unless this keyboard shortcut is able to be changed/disabled I will have to start using alternative clients/services.

Ok Alt+A is a **bleep**up on my side, it is a shortcut used by KeePass to insert credentials....but Alt+R remains

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