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OSCE Office facilitates visit of Afghan de-mining experts to Tajikistan

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DUSHANBE, 7 November 2012 – An OSCE-facilitated visit of a group of humanitarian de-mining experts from Afghanistan to share their experience with Tajik counterparts, started in Dushanbe today.

The visit was organized jointly by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, through its cross-border technical co-operation programme on explosive hazards reduction and response, and the Tajik Mine Action Centre / UNDP in Tajikistan.

The programme of the week-long visit includes a workshop and field activities. Four representatives of Afghanistan’s Mine Action Co-ordination Centre and the Department of Mine Clearance within the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority will address issues related to quality management of humanitarian de-mining operations, national mine action standards as well as planning of de-mining operations. Continue reading →

OSCE Ministerial Council to meet in Dublin on 6-7 December

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DUBLIN, 30 October 2012 – The 19th OSCE Ministerial Council will take place on 6 and 7 December in Dublin.

The event will be held at the invitation of the 2012 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore.

The Ministerial Council is the central decision-making and governing body of the OSCE. The meeting, held annually, provides the foreign ministers of the 56 OSCE participating States an opportunity to review and assess the Organization’s activities during the past year and offer national viewpoints on security matters.

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Leaders Converge on Kazakhstan for Summit

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Aleks Tapinsh, AFP June 14, 2011

Kazakhstan prepared for a summit of a security group regarded as a rival of NATO that is to see rare encounters between the Chinese and Russian leaders with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad, attending the summit despite political problems at home, has already arrived in the Kazakh capital Astana along with Chinese President Hu Jintao who has been on an official visit to Kazakhstan, state media said.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was set up in 2001 as a security counterweight to NATO that would allow Russia and China to rival US influence in Asia. But increasingly, it is looking to cooperate at an economic level. Continue reading →

Kazakhstan/OIC: Chairing OIC will be high point for Kazakhstan, president says

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IINA, May 28, 2011

ASTANA (Kazakhstan), 25 Jumada 2/May 28 (IINA)-Chairing the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) will be another high point for Kazakhstan on the international stage, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Wednesday.

“The presidency in the OIC that unites all Muslims in the world will raise Kazakhstan’s prestige in the Islamic world,” the Trend news agency quoted Nazarbayev as telling the Fourth World Kurultai of Kazakhs in the Kazakh capital Astana. Continue reading →

OSCE Summit in Astana – A Promising Beginning

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The first OSCE summit in eleven years finished with the adoption of the Astana Commemorative Declaration on 2nd December 2010. With negotiations that ran into the small hours, the declaration re-affirmed the organisation’s existing values and has not only set the stage for revitalising the OSCE, but also for providing renewed impetus on global security co-operation. Although it did not provide the series of key action items and agreement on important issues that host country, Kazakhstan, would have wanted, this should be considered as an important new dawn.

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Statement by the Special Envoys of UN, OSCE and EU on Kyrgyzstan

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The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Miroslav Jenca, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Zhanybek Karibzhanov and the EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel welcome the establishment of the new Parliament, election of the speaker and the appointment of a new government of Kyrgyzstan in line with the constitution. This represents a major step in building the country’s democratic legitimate institutions.

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Feature interview for Open Central Asia By HE Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UK Mr Kairat Abusseitov

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Recently the decision was adopted to hold the OSCE Summit in Astana later this year. What does Kazakhstan seek to achieve as a result of this? Which direction do you think the OSCE will take after the Summit?

Indeed, on 3rd August 2010 the Ministerial Council of the OSCE participating States adopted the decision to hold the OSCE Summit in Astana 1st – 2nd December 2010. As our President, Nursultan Nazarbayev put it in his official statement, it represents a great achievement for the entire Organization and is a sign of the high level of respect from the international community. We believe that Summit will set up the road map for the OSCE’s further development as a result of successful negotiations between all parties concerned. Continue reading →