"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).
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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