Тем не менее, надо сказать спасибо наблюдателям ОБСЕ - финскому майору, белорусскому капитану-десантнику и польскому(!) гражданскому(!) за то, что рассказали всё, как было на закрытой пресс-конференции для дипломатов. Их наблюдения были подкреплены рассказами 3-х западных дипломатов и одним(?) русским (интересно, кем и откуда)
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The monitors were members of an international team working under the mandate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or O.S.C.E. A multilateral organization with 56 member states, the group has monitored the conflict since a previous cease-fire agreement in the 1990s.
The observations by the monitors, including a Finnish major, a Belorussian airborne captain and a Polish civilian, have been the subject of two confidential briefings to diplomats in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, one in August and the other in October. Summaries were shared with The New York Times by people in attendance at both.
Details were then confirmed by three Western diplomats and a Russian, and were not disputed by the O.S.C.E.’s mission in Tbilisi, which was provided with a written summary of the observations.
