What opportunities do you see for the OSCE and its expertise outside of the OSCE region?

Striving to avoid duplication of efforts and foster complementarity, the OSCE regularly inventories all OSCE and non OSCE counter terrorism, border security and law enforcement programmes in the region.

You mentioned the success of the OSCE election teams sent to Afghanistan and to the Palestinian Authority and said that the OSCE could develop its relations beyond the OSCE region even further.

Of course, the OSCE had very few resources in the region to begin with, but some members, notably Russia, have been unwilling to give the OSCE a larger role.

And it is the reason the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Representative on Freedom of the Media can, respectively, go to any State throughout the OSCE region to prevent inter ethnic conflict and ensure respect for free media.

The Council will thus note that the OSCE has an impact beyond its vast region, and that it could develop such relations even further.

OSCE Counter Terrorism Action

The OSCE Minsk Group Fact Finding Mission has officially presented its report to the OSCE Permanent Council.

The OSCE is doing its part.

Summary of OSCE counter terrorism activities

OSCE also promotes FATF recommendations on MLTF.

Against this background, efforts now underway to establish a comprehensive multilateral framework for the region can learn from the recent history of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Mongolia is now an OSCE Partner for Cooperation.

Summary of OSCE counter terrorism technical assistance programmes

See OSCE background paper 2004 1, p. 44.

I believe that, by implementing the Strategy, the OSCE can take on some of the burden of the United Nations in the OSCE area.

Earlier this year the OSCE sent a needs assessment team to the Palestinian territories to see what help the OSCE could offer on elections.

The authorities of the region were determined to democratize their society, as shown by the presidential, parliamentary and local elections that had been held over the last decade, in conformity with OSCE decisions.

No other international organization currently possesses the potential to strengthen long term law enforcement capacity and institution building in the OSCE region in the States most susceptible to crime, corruption and human rights violations.

It is less a case of what the United Nations can do for the OSCE than of what the OSCE can do for the United Nations.

And it just so happens that neighboring Kazakhstan currently holds the chair of the OSCE and will host an OSCE summit in its capital later this year.

The Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of OSCE has produced an annual background paper on the use of the death penalty in OSCE member States.

The OSCE is well positioned and well equipped to participate.

The OSCE runs police development units in the western Balkans.

OSCE developed a two prong programme on travel document security.

In December 2010 Kazakhstan held the first OSCE summit since 1999.

In 1991, at a meeting in Moscow, OSCE States agreed that

The OSCE has become active in counter terrorism issues since 2001.

OSCE wide workshops are planned for the first two issues in 2005.

OSCE provides the following counter terrorism related assistance to its participating States

The OSCE mission in that region, which is a component of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, is playing an important role, in particular in observing and promoting compliance with human rights and in monitoring local mass media.

The keenest proponent of a revitalized OSCE now is the US State Department.

This is only the fourth post Cold War summit convened by the OSCE.

The international community OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, UMNBIBH, CRPS provides support to these ministries.

One might ask whether it is true that the OSCE is in crisis.

Organizations must remain dynamic to remain relevant, and the OSCE is no exception.

Projects on combating money laundering and terrorist financing are developed by the Office of the Co ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) and the police capacity building programmes by the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU). ODIHR is an OSCE Institution in Warsaw, while ATU, CPC, OCEEA and SPMU are parts of the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna.

The decisions of the Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE) had offered a legal foundation for solving the conflict in and around the Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in accordance with the aforementioned Security Council resolutions.

This is not the happiest of times to be the OSCE Chairman in Office.

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, which established OSCE.

A periodically updated inventory of OSCE and non OSCE counter terrorism capacity building programmes serves project planners as a valuable tool of avoiding duplication and finding weaker spots in need of anti terrorism attention and assistance.

After the Porto OSCE Ministerial Meeting (2002), and especially after the First Special Meeting of the UNCTC, the OSCE in addition to the above mentioned areas expanded efforts to also address current and emerging terrorist threats.

See Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area, background paper 2004 1 (October 2004), sect. 3.2 (hereinafter OSCE background paper 2004 1).

He himself presided over many violations, a fact noted by the OSCE back in 1999.

The OSCE has a well earned reputation in early warning, early action and conflict prevention.