VIENNA, 12 March 2015 – The Council of Europe and OSCE need to further capitalize on their strengths to effectively address the challenges facing their member countries, said Didier Reynders, Belgium’s Foreign Minister and current chair of the Council’s Committee of Ministers, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council on 12 March 2015. Reynders named a number of challenges which threaten the societies both from within and from the outside, including a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine, recurring manifestations of intolerance and discrimination, as well as increasingly frequent breaches of fundamental rights, democratic institutions and the Rule of law, …read more
Source: OSCE