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Article: Russia tries to force cut in rights monitoringFund block is feared as threat to Europe security organization
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- International Herald Tribune
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- March 30, 2005
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Judy Dempsey
International Herald Tribune
03-30-2005
Russia, angered by the growing influence of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in monitoring elections and human rights on its borders, is blocking the budget for this year and withholding its own contribution to force changes on the organization, according to diplomats at the organization's headquarters in Vienna. The issue has become so serious that a confidential European Union document presented to EU ambassadors this month suggested that member states should step in to support the 180 million, or $240 million, budget or risk collapse of the organization. ''Russia is using the 2005 budget, not because the issue ...