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In Jan 1992, the decision to accept the five Central Asian nations added a Eurasian dimension to the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Three main reasons explain this choice by the participating OSCE nations: (1) Western countries are willing to seal the collapse of the USSR on the pan-European level. (2) Integration of these countries into OSCE may loosen their adhesion to Iranian fundamentalism. (3) Western countries want these new states to adhere to the principles of human rights. Several obstacles made this decision problematic: none of these five states has a democratic past, they have no experience in multilateral diplomacy, & they are traversed by tribal currents, with some destabilized since their independence. The author briefly describes the politics & actions of the OSCE & concludes that the Eurasian dimension remains a progressive process. E. Sanchez