ASTANA. Feb 3 (Interfax) - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) needs due attention on the part of the United States, said the OSCE Chairman-in-office, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
"I would like to note that the long U.S. absence at OSCE high-level meetings has resulted in the well-known imbalance, the slowing down of many OSCE processes, with consensus getting increasingly more difficult to find. The OSCE needs due attention on the part of one of the key nations which laid the foundations of this organization," Saudabayev said at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the U.S. Helsinki Commission) in Washington.
"Proper active [U.S.] involvement will lend the energy the Organization needs so much today," Saudabayev said.
The text of Saudabayev's speech was issued by the Kazakh Foreign Ministry's press office on Tuesday.