(Tbilisi, September 7, 2002, Civil Georgia) – “The United States shares Ambassador Lacombe’s [head of the OSCE mission to Georgia] concern over the negative developments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in recent months,” Douglas Davidson, the deputy chief of the U.S. Mission to the OSCE told the told the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on September 5.
“We welcome the expected continuation next month in Lisbon of political status talks on South Ossetia. Perhaps progress in this area could also somehow contribute to a resolution of the apparent difficulties within the Joint Control Commission and the Joint Peacekeeping Force,” the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State quotes Douglas Davidson.
The US envoy stated that the situation in Abkhazia “is also regrettable, although the Mission’s mandate leaves the OSCE with limited possibilities for involvement in the security and political settlement issues there”.
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