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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office offers condolences over plane crash in Kazakhstan

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, formally opening the 2012 OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin, 6 December 2012. (OSCE/Dan Dennison)
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, formally opening the 2012 OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin, 6 December 2012. (OSCE/Dan Dennison)

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, extended his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash of a military plane near Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan on 25 December 2012.

“I offer my deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed in this tragic accident. Our thoughts are with the people and Government of Kazakhstan at this sad time,” he said.

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