US supports OSCE efforts in resolving post-Soviet conflicts

Barack Obama's administration wants the OSCE to take part in settling
conflicts in the post-soviet space, ITAR-TASS reports.

US Assistant Defense Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Philip Gordon was at the session of the commission in Helsinki. The
Pentagon deputy head for security Alexander Vershbow and Assistant
Defense Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Michael
Posner were also present.

Gordon believes that the OSCE should help resolve conflicts in
Georgia, Moldavia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The conflicts have disastrous
potential.

Washington believes that the OSCE needs to pay more attention to
Central Asia.This includes Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan.

Belarus, Russia and Uzbekistan cause US concern, in terms of the human
rights and democracy.

Vershbow noted that the trilateral meeting in Kazan on June 24 was
fruitless in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.