Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeUpdates
The print version of the OSCE Handbook represents a "snapshot" of the Organization in mid-2007. To enable readers to keep up-to-date with the rapidly-changing world of the OSCE, major updates to the information in the book will be listed below.
Notifications of updates for possible inclusion on this page may be sent by e-mail to the OSCE's Press and Public Information Section: info@osce.org
Updates:
Page 2:
The sentence under the heading The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe beginning "Representatives from Europe..." should read: "Representatives from Europe, the United States and Canada met at the Dipoli conference centre in Espoo, near Helsinki. The name Dipoli became an informal way of referring to the talks themselves."
Page 20:
Kazakhstan holds the OSCE Chairmanship in 2010, and the Chairperson-in-Office is Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister, Kanat Saudabayev.
Greece held the Chairmanship in 2009. The Chairperson-in-Office was George Papandreou, who was sworn in as his country's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister on 6 October 2009, succeeding former Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis.
Finland held the Chairmanship in 2008. The Chairman-in-Office was Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who took over from his predecessor Ilkka Kanerva in April that year.
The Chairmanship will be held by Lithuania in 2011 and Ireland in 2012.
Pages 28, 35 and back cover:
The OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media moved to new premises in December 2007. The contact details are now as follows:
Press and Public Information Section
OSCE Secretariat
Wallnerstrasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 514 36 6180
E-mail: info@osce.org
Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Wallnerstrasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 514 36 6800
E-mail: pm-fom@osce.org
Page 34:
The final sentence in the first paragraph should read: "The first Representative, Freimut Duve of Germany, was succeeded in 2004 by Miklos Haraszti of Hungary."
The current OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media is Dunja Mijatovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who was appointed on 11 March 2010.
Pages 40-1:
The OSCE Presence in Albania has moved to new premises. Its contact details are now:
OSCE Presence in Albania
Sheraton Tirana Hotel & Towers, 1st Floor, Sheshi "Italia"
Tirana
Albania
Tel: +355 4 223 5993 232
Fax: +355 4 240002
Pages 44-5:
Following this Decision by the OSCE Permanent Council in December 2007, the Mission to Croatia closed on 31 December that year.
The decision to formally close the Mission after eleven years was taken by all of the 56 OSCE participating States, including Croatia. It was based on the assessment that Croatia's progress related to the country's fulfillment of international commitments as foreseen by the Mission mandate has been evident and that Croatia has successfully dealt with most of the issues contained in the broad mandate under which the Mission had been operating.
The Permanent Council also agreed that as of 1 January 2008, the OSCE would have an Office in Zagreb to work with the Government and other Croatian institutions on completing some outstanding issues related to war crimes trials and report on the remaining aspects of the implementation of the Government's housing care programmes.
The website of the OSCE Office in Zagreb is www.osce.org/zagreb
Page 48:
The international dialling code for Montenegro is now +382. The OSCE Mission to Montenegro's telephone and fax numbers are therefore:
Tel: +382 81 406 401
Fax: +382 81 406 431
Page 55:
The website of the OSCE Office in Minsk is www.osce.org/minsk
Pages 62-63:
No consensus was reached by the OSCE participating States on the extension of the Mission to Georgia's mandate at the end of 2008. The Mission closed at the end of June 2009.
On page 62, the second sentence in the first paragraph should read: "The Mission, which began work on 3 December 1992..."
Pages 64-65:
The OSCE Office in Yerevan has moved to new premises. Its contact details are now:
OSCE Office in Yerevan
64/1 Sundukyan Street
0012 Yerevan
Armenia
Tel: +374 10 229610
Fax: +374 10 229615
Page 69:
The Centre in Astana's telephone and fax numbers have changed and are now as follows:
Tel: +7 (7172) 580070
Fax: +7 (7172) 328304
Pages 72-73:
The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe was renamed the Office in Tajikistan and given a new mandate by Permanent Council Decision 852 of 19 June 2008. Its website is www.osce.org/tajikistan
The Office also moved to new premises at the end of 2008, and its contact details are now as follows:
OSCE Office in Tajikistan
18a Ahmadi Donish Avenue
73412 Dushanbe
Tajikistan
Tel: +992 37 2265014/15/16/17/18
Fax: +992 37 251 01 37
Page 75:
The website of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan is www.osce.org/uzbekistan
Page 78:
The website of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on the Conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference is www.osce.org/minskconference
Page 92:
Under the heading Moscow Mechanism, the sentence "In 2002, a fact-finding mission was sent to Turkmenistan." should be deleted.
Page 109:
The second sentence in footnote 3 should read: "It was admitted in November 2000 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia..."