 Wysłany: Czw 7:30, 02 Gru 2010 Temat postu: Kazakhstan hosts OSCE summit to better handle secu |
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| The seventh summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe opened here Wednesday to seek more effective collective ways to deal with various security challenges.
"This summit is a sign of the rebirth of the organization," Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on member states to work out a "forward-looking framework for action" to fulfil the bloc's founding principles. "It can be effective only if participating states back its institutions and missions with political will Tiffany," she said. It was the first time that an OSCE summit was held in a Central Asian country. The event has gathered 38 heads of state Tiffany, one vice president Tiffany, seven prime ministers and 14 other ministers or top governmental officials from member states, in addition to representatives from 12 other partner states, according to an OSCE announcement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were attending the summit. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko were also attending the event. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy were also in Astana. The OSCE is based in Vienna with 56 participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North America. It also maintains formal relations with a number of partner states in Asia and the Mediterranean. Kazakhstan holds the rotating chair of the organization this year. |
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