GENEVA, Jan 23 (Hina) - Croatian ambassador to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Darko Bekic, said that the OSCE as a political organization should analyze both positive and negative effects of the market
transformation in the Central, Eastern European and the former Soviet Union countries, expressly its effects to the social peace, political and military stability and overall international cooperation. Bekic took part at a two-day OSCE session, focused on economic aspects of stability in its area, which closed on Tuesday in Geneva.
GENEVA, Jan 23 (Hina) - Croatian ambassador to the Organization on
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Darko Bekic, said that
the OSCE as a political organization should analyze both positive
and negative effects of the market transformation in the Central,
Eastern European and the former Soviet Union countries, expressly
its effects to the social peace, political and military stability
and overall international cooperation.
Bekic took part at a two-day OSCE session, focused on economic
aspects of stability in its area, which closed on Tuesday in
Geneva. #L#
Bekic said that Croatia believed that the problem of economic
reforms in the Central, Eastern European and the former Soviet
Union countries should not be considered only from an economic
point of view, meaning financial effects and profitability, but
from overall social results.
The transition from centralized plan to the market economy had
many positive effects, but has also caused threats to social peace,
ethnic relations and political stability and security.
"The OSCE's task now is to identify these adverse effects,
particularly those coming from speculative transactions, which
never consider the social peace, but stratifies the population and
troubles the overall social balance," Bekic said.
But the European Union governments have appeared not to be
ready for self-criticism and to analyze the inadequacies in their
support to the process of economic transformation in Eastern
Europe, he added.
At the same time the officials from the Central, Eastern
European and the former Soviet Union countries remained reluctant
to voice their own negative experiences, due to their interest to
be quickly allowed to the European integrations and to encourage
foreign capital influx into their national economies, he said.
These inadequacies in the policies of certain governments had
already resulted in the fact that the electorate in the eastern
European countries had mostly returned the confidence to the
socialists and neo-communists, Bekic recalled.
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