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As an expert on this troubled region has said: "The principle of settlement as revealed by these treaties is fundamentally wrong. The East must be resuscitated, not exploited." But be it East or West, there is the same return to the old game of balancing off gains and changing boundaries, without consideration of the rights of the respec- tive peoples. The costly mistakes of the Con- gresses of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin are being re- peated.
