工an Monroe 🚰 on Mythryl: “So it means "we regret having to condemn the" but they forgot to…”

"regret" just went through the Wiktionary page to make sure there wasn't an obscure usage I was missing. I think it's just super passive aggressive diplomatic speak not a European english-ism (apparently regret means the same thing in French even).

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

We deeply regret the ratification today by the Libyan Parliament of the so-called Libyan-Türkiye Memorandum of Understanding on the delimitation of maritime jurisdictions in the Mediterranean Sea.

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