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| | Osce In Moldova: Showing The Flag For What It's Worth - Eurasia Daily Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20) |
 | | Passy, too, was asked why OSCE failed to raise the issue when the delegation met Smirnov in Tiraspol. |
 | | In his own communiqué on the visit, Passy "expressed his concerns with regard to the implementation of OSCE Istanbul Summit decisions on the withdrawal of military forces." The phrase is calculated to avoid using even the mild term "non-implementation". |
 | | Passy failed to react; the OSCE's Chisinau Mission, as usual in such cases, commented that the move was "counterproductive," "unilateral," not contributing to mutual confidence, and needed to bediscussed in the "existing channels." However, the existing channels, dominated by the Russian and Trans-Dniester sides, invariably condone moves of that type, to OSCE's sometimes-stated regrets. |
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