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| Debates on International Security 03/12/2010 |
| (2010-12-03) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-06 14:06 EET |
Heads of state attending the OSCE summit in Kazakhstan only adopted a declaration reiterating their commitment to the founding principles of the OSCE. That is an inconspicuous achievement incapable of overshadowing the greatest disappointment of the summit, namely the failure to agree on an action plan meant to strengthen the OSCE
The organization was founded in 1973 during the Cold War in order to build up trust and prevent conflicts between the two enemy blocs. Four decades later, the OSCE is on the verge of losing its raison d’ętre. One reason for that might be the dissensions between Russian and Western leaders that were also manifest at the Astana summit. Differences, mainly over the issue of Georgia, were actually the main reason preventing the adoption of an action plan.
From the very outset, Moscow had issued recurrent warnings that it would be thumbs down on any document recognizing the territorial sovereignty of Georgia. Russia’s stance in the matter was predictable, after it had recognized the independence of Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The OSCE is the prisoner of political and ideological biases, that is how the Russian representative accounted for the failure of a consensus being reached over frozen conflicts in the area. The European Union and the United States unequivocally stood for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia and the ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova with a predominantly Romanian-speaking population.
Romania was quick to join the cause. In his speech delivered at the outset of the Astana summit, president Traian Basescu underscored that the resolution of the Transdniestr conflict remained a top-priority of the Bucharest administration. Transdniestr is currently a pro-Russian breakaway region that came out of Moldova’s control following the 1992 armed conflict.
For Romania, the situation in Transdniestr, Abkhazia and Ossetia’s separatism undermining the territorial integrity of Georgia on the one hand, and the Nagomo-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the other impair the climate of security in the OSCE area.
Romania is still confident in the OSCE’s ability to identify drawbacks and difficulties in order to overcome uncompromising approaches and to articulate consensual formulas, president Basescu added.
However, the subsequent proceeding of the summit knocked the bottom out of president Basescu’s optimism. Romanian ambassador to the OSCE, Cornel Saruta did not refrain from expressing his disappointment with the failure of the summit to agree on a reasoned political document and with the omission of the threat posed by frozen conflicts in the final declaration.
Romania did sign the declaration however, says ambassador Saruta, as a sign of adherence to and respect for the principles of the OSCE.
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