BELGRADE (Sputnik) — Cooperation has been increasingly difficult due to growing distrust and the policy of confrontation, along with diminishing adherence to the OSCE's comprehensive and co-operative security concept, the chairman said.
"It appears that the origins of the crisis in and around Ukraine are deeper than it has been assumed before. The tension between the east and the west, which started to grow prior to the crisis escalation, is amplified by differing approaches to understanding risk and contradicting decisions regarding security," Dacic said at the international social-scientific "Yalta-Potsdam-Helsinki-Belgrade: In Search of a Secure World Order."
The recent Paris attacks show that tackling the threats Europe and other OSCE members are faced with requires restoring mutual trust, Dacic added, citing Turkey's downing of the Russian Su-24 jet and Europe's migrant crisis as examples.
