Despite all the effort Kazakhstan went to in trying to secure and prepare for the first heads of state and government summit in a decade of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the meeting was actually a bit of a letdown.
Unresolved disputes related to the protracted conflicts among the former Soviet republics, as well as disagreements over how to strengthen the OSCE’s crisis prevention and management tools, prevented the Astana Summit attendees from adopting a proposed action plan.
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