Chairmanship

The OSCE Chairmanship is held for one calendar year by the OSCE participating State designated as such by a decision of the Ministerial Council. The function of the Chairperson-in-Office (CiO) is exercised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of that State.

L-r: Moldova's Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration, Eugen Carpov; the Representative of the Irish Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton; and Transdniestria's chief negotiator, Nina Shtanski, speaking on the sidelines of official 5+2 talks on the Transdniestrian settlement process, Dublin, 28 November 2012.

Participants in talks on Transdniestrian settlement review 2012 progress

DUBLIN, 30 November 2012 – The latest round of talks on the Transdniestrian settlement concluded today in Dublin. During the three-day meeting, the participants reviewed progress achieved this year under the Irish OSCE Chairmanship...
The Representative of the Irish Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, alongside Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, during official 5+2 talks, Dublin, 28 November 2012.

Transdniestrian settlement negotiations started in Dublin

DUBLIN, 28 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement started in Dublin today. The three-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations – Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...

28th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti

ERGNETI, 27 November 2012 - On 27 November, the 28th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, co-facilitated by the European Union Monitoring Mission and the OSCE, took place in Ergneti...

Official 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement to take place in Dublin on 28-30 November

DUBLIN, 27 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement will take place in Dublin from 28 to 30 November...
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, opening the first OSCE Permanent Council meeting of the 2012 Irish Chairmanship, Vienna, 12 January 2012.

Mongolia becomes the 57th participating State of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

DUBLIN, 21 November 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, today announced that Mongolia has acceded to the OSCE, becoming the Organization’s 57th participating State...
The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, briefs journalists during a working visit to Moldova by the mediators and observers in the 5+2 talks, Chisinau, 6 November 2012.

Transdniestrian settlement mediators and observers stress need to make progress

CHISINAU, 7 November 2012 – An OSCE-organized working visit to the region of the mediators and observers in the 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement concluded in Chisinau today...
Yuri Dzhibladze of Russia, President of the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, gives his keynote address at the opening session of a civil society forum on the freedom of assembly and association, Vienna, 7 November 2012. The forum was organized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum

Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...

Mediators and observers in Transdniestrian settlement process to visit Chisinau, Tiraspol

CHISINAU, 5 November 2012 - The Irish OSCE Chairmanship, together with the OSCE Mission to Moldova will organize a three-day working visit to Chisinau and Tiraspol by the mediators and observers in the 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement, starting on 5 November...
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