Chairman-in-Office

"Annual Reports are more than simply bureaucratic or public relations exercises. They provide an opportunity to weave together the threads of our diverse Organization, and to clarify its various activities and programmes.

The OSCE is a uniquely complex Organization - complex in its decentralized structure and its ambitious and evergrowing mandates, complex also in the myriad activities it undertakes across 56 countries. The 2007 Annual Report goes a long way to revealing the OSCE as it is and points toward future opportunities."

Extract from the Secretary General's message in the OSCE Annual Report 2007.