OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (left) meets his Belgian counterpart Karel De Gucht, who will take over from Rupel as CiO in 2006, at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO)
Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (right), who will take over the role of OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2006, speaking at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO)
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, arrives for the second day of the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
The Foreign Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ilinka Mitreva, speaking at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
The Foreign Minister of Poland Stefan Meller (left) with OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Montenegro, Miodrag Vlahovic (right), meets OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) and U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO)
Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, who will take over the role of OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2006, speaking at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 6 December 2005. (BOBO)
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel (left) with Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek (centre) and Prime Minister Janez Jansa at the opening of the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 5 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 5 December 2005. (BOBO/Tina Kosec)
US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns (left), and German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 5 December 2005. (BOBO)
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa (right) greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Tina Kosec)
Ban Ki-moon (then South Korean Foreign Minister, now UN Secretary General) speaking at the meeting of Asian Partners for Co-operation at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 5 December 2005. (BOBO)
OSCE Troika meeting with the Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel (left) and Uzbek Foreign Minister Elyor Ganiev at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 5 December 2005. (BOBO/Tina Kosec)
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meeting at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council, Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Tina Kosec)
Ban Ki-moon (then South Korean Foreign Minister, now UN Secretary General) with OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dmitrij Rupel (right) at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meeting prior to the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council, Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. (BOBO/Tina Kosec)
Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel addresses the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council in Ljubljana, 4 December 2005. Assembly President Alcee L. Hastings sits immediately to his right. (BOBO/Srdjan Zivulovic)
More than 1,000 participants are expected to gather in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council, 5 and 6 December 2005. (OSCE/Alexander Nitzsche)