PanARMENIAN.Net 1 December 2010 Мир нуждается в такой уникальной организации как ОБСЕ, поскольку затянувшиеся конфликты и их последствия по-прежнему влияют на будущее организации и по-прежнему существует угроза применения силы. Об этом, выступая на пленарном заседании саммита ОБСЕ в Астане, заявил президент Парламентской Ассамблеи (ПА) ОБСЕ Петрос Эфтимиу. «Эта организация также нужна, поскольку нестабильность в соседних регионах по-прежнему

EURASIANET.ORG 1 December 2010 The first day of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summit in Kazakhstan produced consensus on the need to address security threats. But as participants prepared for the final day of the gathering, deep divisions remained on key democratization issues, including human rights standards. OSCE officials and leaders of the 56 participating states were quick to embrace calls to revitalize the

TIMES.AM 1 December 2010 The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, opened today in Astana the first OSCE Summit in 11 years, calling the gathering a "triumph of common sense" and urging the Heads of State and Government from the 56 OSCE participating States to "advance together towards a secure future for our peoples", official web-site of OSCE informs. "This journey was started three and a half decades ago," said President Nazarbayev

ANA-MPA 1 December 2010 Astana-Kazakhstan (ANA-MPA/G. Milionis) -- A Summit meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) opened at the Palace of Independence in the Kazakh capital Astana on Wednesday morning, with Greece represented by prime minister George Papandreou and foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas. Papandreou on Wednesday held a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the 2-day OSCE summit, the

President Petros Efthymiou meeting the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev (OSCE/Vladimir Trofimchuk) ASTANA, 1 December 2010 – OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou called today for strengthening transparency and accountability in the OSCE in an address at the start of the OSCE Astana Summit. The OSCE is facing an “identity crisis,” said the President, but the roots of the crisis can be identified. He cited a lack of mutual trust that

ASTANA, 30 November 2010 — On the eve of the seventh OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan, eleven years after the last OSCE Summit in Istanbul, the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly met today in Astana. After this meeting with the senior leadership of the Assembly, I would like to welcome once again, on behalf of the OSCE PA, that the 2010 OSCE Chairmanship of Kazakhstan brought new dynamics and confidence to the Organization. Kazakhstan’s