Politics:

Problems remain unsettled after the OSCE summit

All the statements in the declaration are given in the subjunctive mood, which, as we all know, is a most suitable form to conceal one's inability of affecting the developments in the South Caucasus region.

December 6, 2008
The meeting between the OSCE Foreign Ministers in Helsinki is already over. As expected, the major issues to be discussed at the summit were the situation in the Caucasus region, particularly the problem of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation, and, naturally, the Russian-Georgian relations. It would, of course, be naive to expect anything new in the Karabakh problem, in spite of the fact that certain forces in Armenia and Azerbaijan hurried with their conclusions concerning the dates of regulation.
 
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