OSCE TO CLOSE DOWN ITS MISSION IN GEORGIA

Panorama.am
17:05 22/12/2008

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is to close
down its mission in Georgia, announced the OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Alexander Stubb. Note that today Russia has blocked the extension
of the OSCE mandate. It means that the OSCE observers should leave
Georgian territory since January 1, 2009.

The Finnish representatives said that it would be impossible to make
any agreements and to prolong the OSCE mission mandate. But still
the negotiations over this issue will be continues in January.