... non-interference and peaceful settlement of disputes. In 1999, the OSCE member states from NATO countries launched air strikes on another OSCE member state, Yugoslavia. NATO countries conducted a number of interventions in the Greater Middle East, including Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Russia used the Georgia pacification operation to assert its solution to the issues of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in response ... ... the Cold War, namely reunification with Crimea, the emergence of new quasi- state entities, and a bloody civil war in central Europe. Many new states turned out to be much more fragile and vulnerable than it seemed. It was revealed that they find it difficult ...
... potential and could have had a major positive impact on European developments.
However, the OSCE could occupy a central place among European and Euro-Atlantic organizations, only if NATO and the EU made room for it. Clearly, they had no intention to do so.
And what is more, at first they even thought about dissolving it. In their opinion, which they openly shared with Russian diplomats, the OSCE had largely performed its mission. It helped to put an end to the Cold War and to enforce the shared values, the future guardians ...
... Prospects for Strengthening the OSCE” that took place in Moscow on Sept. 25
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Russia Direct: What lessons should the OSCE and the world learn from the Ukrainian crisis?
Andrey Kortunov:
It seems to me that the Ukrainian crisis has revealed the extreme weakness of European security institutions, including the Russia-NATO Council and other NATO and EU agencies. Of course, in comparison with these organizations, the OSCE did pretty well in Ukraine ...
