A summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) expected in the capital of Kazakhstan this year could help reform the organization and make breakthrough decisions on problematic issues, experts polled by RIA Novosti said.
August 1 marks the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act that set out the principles of the modern architecture of European security. Experts expect the Astana summit to start the process of transforming the OSCE, which was established by the Helsinki Final Act.
"We hope that the OSCE summit in Astana could launch changes within the OSCE and help achieve breakthrough decisions and solve many problems, including the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, frozen conflicts, the situation in Afghanistan and many other issues," Leonid Gusev, a senior researcher at the Center of Analytical Monitoring at the Moscow Institute of International Relations, said.
According to Alexei Vlasov, general director of Moscow University's Information and Analytical Center for the Study of Social and Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space, the decision to hold an OSCE summit has been a great success of Kazakhstan as the organization's rotating chairman.
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