VIENNA, 14 January 2016 – Germany, as this year’s Chair of the OSCE, aims to steer the Organization as a platform for real and honest dialogue, said Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his first address as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the Permanent Council in Vienna today.
Presenting the programme of Germany’s 2016 OSCE Chairmanship to representatives of the Organization’s 57 participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation, Steinmeier said his country assumes the Chairmanship at a turbulent time with recent deadly terrorist attacks in the region, the ongoing conflict in and around Ukraine as well as crises in the Mediterranean and …read more
Source: OSCE