Sounds Like Santa Claus Giving Up On Your Gifts TO ME...!
On Christmas Day, the GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY might be, for some, that "the boys are coming home"... (They won't make it in time for the real deal holiday, but that is not the point right now... Somehow...)
These "good news" are about a "world security and watchdog group" that is all set (and all-packed, ready) to leave Croatia at long last.
I guess that, by their estimates, their "large-scale mission" there is over and COMPLETE.
Ha. Right. And Santa's sleigh really did stop by my rooftop - a Christmas miracle said rooftop DID NOT cave in! But that's another story...
The O.S.C.E. (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) felt that all that could be done in Croatia effectively WAS accomplished since the mission opened there waaaaay back in 1996.
Thus, eleven years later, it's goodbye and good riddance!
Not sure it's such "good news"... After all, one can always prolong one's stay AND welcome as long as there are no guerilla tactics bombing you to smithereens to get you OUT...!
Granted, the "OSCE" will be upkeeping an office there still - to "monitor trials of war crime suspects" as well as monitor the return of Croatian Serb refugees; those poor saps who left Croatia during the 1991-95 senseless Serb-Croat war...
Still, this all feels like Ol' St-Nick bailing out on ya on THE VERY DAY that he's supposed to deliver the goods - more than partly due to the day in which this came out on the news press release wires, I admit!
Merry Christmas, OSCE Observers!
And try and be merry too - in Croatia, that is...
These "good news" are about a "world security and watchdog group" that is all set (and all-packed, ready) to leave Croatia at long last.
I guess that, by their estimates, their "large-scale mission" there is over and COMPLETE.
Ha. Right. And Santa's sleigh really did stop by my rooftop - a Christmas miracle said rooftop DID NOT cave in! But that's another story...
The O.S.C.E. (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) felt that all that could be done in Croatia effectively WAS accomplished since the mission opened there waaaaay back in 1996.
Thus, eleven years later, it's goodbye and good riddance!
Not sure it's such "good news"... After all, one can always prolong one's stay AND welcome as long as there are no guerilla tactics bombing you to smithereens to get you OUT...!
Granted, the "OSCE" will be upkeeping an office there still - to "monitor trials of war crime suspects" as well as monitor the return of Croatian Serb refugees; those poor saps who left Croatia during the 1991-95 senseless Serb-Croat war...
Still, this all feels like Ol' St-Nick bailing out on ya on THE VERY DAY that he's supposed to deliver the goods - more than partly due to the day in which this came out on the news press release wires, I admit!
Merry Christmas, OSCE Observers!
And try and be merry too - in Croatia, that is...
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ at
2:31 PM
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World watchdog mission leaves Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia,
Dec. 25 (UPI) --
A world security and watchdog group will close its large-scale mission in Croatia, leaving only an office to monitor trials of war crime suspects.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said in a statement Tuesday the office also will monitor the return of Croatian Serb refugees, who left Croatia during the 1991-95 Serb-Croat war.
The organization decided to close the mission, which was opened in Zagreb in 1996, after it saw strengthening of Croatia's institutions, election reforms, the Constitutional Court, improvements in protection of human and national minority rights, and integration of refugees who returned home.
The group's international security body is involved in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, and democratization processes. It also sends observers to monitor local elections.
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 2:48 PM
Hmm...
With my fine sense of observation, I should be an "OSCE Observer" myself!
One more item to add to my "things to do in 2008" list!
;)
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 2:50 PM
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