2023-12-01 14:37:38
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will also survive the second year of war in Ukraine: After months of blockades, the 57 OSCE states agreed this Friday in Skopje on Malta to become the new chairmanship country and to extend the four top OSCE posts , which would otherwise have become vacant on Sunday. This was announced by the outgoing OSCE Chairman, North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, to journalists.
Osmani described this result as “historic and groundbreaking.” The OSCE states met in Skopje to commit themselves to the organization and – in their overwhelming majority – also to condemn Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. “One of our states has blatantly violated our principles, but we still need this organization. Our people also need this organization,” he emphasized, referring to the motto of the North Macedonian Presidency “It’s regarding people.”
He recalled that the OSCE had stood by the people of the conflict-prone Western Balkans. “The OSCE was there when we needed it. Now we were there when the OSCE needed us,” said the North Macedonian minister to applause in the conference room. He wished the future OSCE chairmanship country Malta, represented by Foreign Minister Ian Borg, “a less challenging year than we had.”
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