CIS DISCONTENT WITH OSCE STATE OF AFFAIRS
Pan Armenian News
17.06.2005 06:42
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The CIS member-states expressed dissatisfaction with
the state of affairs of the OSCE, participants of the consultations
on interaction of the CIS member-states within the Organization held
today in the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk declared. Representatives
of the Foreign Ministries of Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are taking part
in the talks. As Director of the Department of Political and
Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Executive Committee Rudolf
Alexeyev said, a number of crisis tendencies have appeared in the
OSCE. “With its present appearance the Organization does not serve
the purpose of establishing equal dialogue and cooperation for 35
member-states. Sometimes the dialogue is replaced by instruction
and equal cooperation yields to political pressure”, he said. Many
member-states spoke out for reformation of the structure. The same
position is expressed in the statement by 8 Presidents of the CIS
states to OSCE partners issued on July 3, 2004, Belarusskie Novosti
reported.