Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen (r), speaks at the end of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council with Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb on his right, Helsinki, 5 December 2008 (Petri Krook)

The second day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at a news conference at the end of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. Greece will take over the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Eva Biaudet, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, during the final plenary session at the 16th OSCE Ministerial council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb waves at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. The two-day event in the capital of Finland brought together some 50 foreign ministers from the Organization's 56 participating States. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Iceland Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir before her speech on the second day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at the final plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Georgian Foreign Minister Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili (left) with Ambassador Victor Dolidze at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. On the right is French Ambassador to the OSCE Eric Lebedel. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Daniel Fried (Left), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, and German Ambassador Heiner Horsten, on the second day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis (second right) on the second day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

A journalist takes notes as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (on screen) addresses the third plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Graham Patterson)

Interpretors at work on the second day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. The OSCE has 6 official languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) listens to Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb during the final plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Journalists rest in the relaxation area of the media centre before the final plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb (left) with Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at a news conference at the end of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. Greece will take over the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb (left) with Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at a news conference at the end of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. Greece will take over the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at a news conference at the end of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 5 December 2008. Greece will take over the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Marat Tazhin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Franck Biancheri, Minister Plenipotentiary for External Relations of Monaco, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Ministers pose for a family photo at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Pinchas Avivi, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov checks his watch before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (left) and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner discuss during a break at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

The First Plenary Session begins at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Lunch is served on the first day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, at the opening of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Abdullo Yuldoshev, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Ehab Fawzy, Ambassador of Egypt to the OSCE, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

The Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (left) and Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis discuss at the beginning of the first plenary session at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

(L-r:) OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, Finnish President Tarja Halonen, Head of the Finnish OSCE Chairmanship Task Force, Aleksi Harkonen, and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Janez Lenarcic, Director of the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Dick Roche, Minister for European Affairs of Ireland, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Gordan Jandrokovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Croatia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Rita Kieber-Beck, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Shintaro Ito, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Sergei Martynov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Milan Rocen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Special Representative on combating human trafficking, Eva Biaudet, gives an interview at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Loof)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for the Holy See's Relations with States, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Alfredo Mantica, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Italy, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Knut Vollebaek (left), OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, with Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, OSCE Secretary General, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Maxime Verhagen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Adisak Panupong, Ambassador of Thailand to Austria, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Delegation of the Holy See during an intervention at the plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, OSCE Secretary General, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Makram Queisi, Ambassador of Jordan, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman Alexander Stubb (left) and Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins look at their badges before the opening of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Volodymyr Ogryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Maris Riekstins, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ogryzko at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Special Representative on combating human trafficking Eva Biaudet (l) gives an interview to Finnish TV station YLE at the 16th Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Timo Jaakonaho)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Andrei Stratan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Meritxell Mateu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Algerian Ambassador to the OSCE, Taos Feroukhi, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Carmel Inguanez, Director General for European and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki. (Petri Krook)

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (left) and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (right) at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Finnish President Tarja Halonen speaks at the First Plenary Session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili (right) and her team walk to the bilateral meeting with the Finnish OSCE Chairmanship, 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado (right) is welcomed by OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Journalists work in the press centre at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council while German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is seen speaking on the screen, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. Some 300 journalists came to the Finnish capital to cover the event. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Dragoljuba Bencina, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet at the first plenary session of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), welcomes Eka Tkeshelashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Finnish President Tarja Halonen welcomes dinner guests on the first day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. The dinner took place in the Finlandia Hall, where the historic Helsinki Final Act was signed in 1975. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (left), with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Finnish President Tarja Halonen (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a bilateral meeting during the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4-5 December 2008 (Petri Krook)

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the working lunch on the first day of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, Helsinki, 4 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

The Finnish Task Force visits the premise of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council taking place in Helsinki on 4-5 December 2008. (MFA Finland/Vuokko Ritari)

OSCE anti-trafficking spokesperson Blanca Tapia (r) and Special Representative Eva Biaudet (c) with a journalist at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki, 3 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, smiles at a news conference before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, in Helsinki, 3 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

Preparations under way for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, which takes place in Helsinki on 4 and 5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, gestures as he speaks at a news conference before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, in Helsinki 3 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, at a news conference before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, in Helsinki 3 December 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, at a news conference before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, in Helsinki, 3 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

The 16th OSCE Ministerial Council takes place in Helsinki, 4-5 December 2008. Picture of the centre of Helsinki on 24 November, before the event. (MFA Finland/Vuokko Ritari)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb tries out an exercise cycle during a walkthrough at the Helsinki Fair Centre, 1 December 2008, where the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council will be held on 4-5 December. (Petri Krook)

Preparations under way at the Helsinki Fair Centre on 30 November 2008 for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council, to be held on 4-5 December. (OSCE/Graham Patterson)

Ice skaters at an open-air rink in Helsinki on 30 November 2008, where the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council will be held on 4-5 December. (OSCE/Graham Patterson)

An engineer installs cables in preparation for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council to take place in Helsinki, 4-5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Stacks of chairs for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council to take place in Helsinki, 4-5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

Cables installed for the media centre at the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council to take place in Helsinki, 4-5 December 2008. (Petri Krook)

All procedures and equipment are tested well before the start of the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council to take place in Helsinki, 4-5 Dcember 2008. (Petri Krook)

The Helsinki Fair Centre will be the venue for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council on 4-5 December 2008. (The Finnish Fair Corporation)