December 3, 2010 - 12:36 AMT
01:43 GMT
The widely advertised OSCE summit in Astana, in truly Asian spirit, can be in some way considered a failure. The mere fact that the summit was not attended by Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy is already a big minus for Kazakhstan, not to mention the obvious demarche of the Russian delegation, headed by President Dmitry Medvedev, who left Astana without signing the declaration. Even the declaration, made in the best colors of Soviet times, hardly reflects the real situation in the OSCE area.