Lithuania's
Block of
Serbia for
OSCE
Withdrawn, PGA
Race
Heats Up
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 9 --
Lithuania's attempt
to "break
silence"
on Serbia's
bid to head
the
Organization
for Security
and
Co-operation
in Europe in
2014 has
failed, Inner
City Press has
been
told.
"Lithuania
sent an e-mail
trying to
break
silence,"
a well placed
diplomat told
Inner City
Press on
Thursday
night, "but
the Irish
chair of OSCE
refused to
consider the
e-mail
effective and
Lithuania
withdrew it."
Inner
City Press
first reported
on Lithuania
move in the
context of
Serbian
foreign
minister Vuk
Jeremic
stepping into
the race to be
the next
President
of the UN
General
Assembly,
against the
Lithuania.
After Inner
City
Press' exclusive
article,
Russian
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly
Churkin told
Inner City
Press Jeremic
would
"revitalize
the
General
Assembly" and
that
Lithuania's
breaking
silence at
OSCE
was "bad
diplomatic
practice."
Apparently
Lithuania, or
at
least the
Irish chair of
OSCE,
subsequently
agreed.
A
diplomat
opposed
to Jeremic's
PGA candidacy
predicted that
his party
would not
retain
the same
power, and
that Jeremic
would not
remain foreign
minister.
But a
supporter said
that Jeremic
could
continue, as
an individual,
and
pointed out
that Jeremic's
education is
"much more
Western"
than that of
the Lithuanian
candidate. And
so it goes at
the UN -
watch this
site.
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