OSCE Mission to Montenegro

Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu

Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, a career diplomat of the Romanian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was appointed Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro/Head of the Office in Podgorica in January 2005. Following OSCE Permanent Council Decision No. 732 on the opening of a new Mission to Montenegro, she became Acting Head of the Mission to Montenegro on 29 June 2006, and subsequently Head of Mission effective from 12 September 2006.

Ambassador Badescu holds an MA in Philology from Bucharest University. She has completed a number of postgraduate courses in conflict prevention, crisis management, negotiation skills, international relations and senior management at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest and abroad.

After she was assigned to the Permanent Mission of Romania to the OSCE in 1993, Paraschiva Badescu served at first as a Counsellor, becoming Deputy Head of Mission and Alternate Representative, then Chargé d'Affaires. Subsequently she became Head of the Romanian delegation to the Joint Consultative Group, in which capacity she had the task of negotiating the Agreement on Adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

In 1997, she was appointed Deputy Head of Department for the OSCE, Council of Europe and regional organizations at the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently, Ambassador Badescu was assigned to lead the Romanian delegation to the negotiations with Ukraine on confidence and security-building measures (CSBMs), the agreement on naval CSBMs among Black Sea States, as well as the meetings of the Joint Consultative Commission for a bilateral Romania-Hungary "Open Skies" accord.

From June 2000 until December 2001, Ambassador Badescu was Senior Advisor, Head of the Political and Institutional Section, of the Romanian OSCE Chairmanship.

More recently, from January 2001 until July 2004, she served as Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad, Turkmenistan, and after that as Special Advisor for Security and Strategic Issues in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September 2004, she received an award as Romanian diplomat of the year working in an international organization.

Ambassador Badescu is fluent in Russian, English and French and speaks Ukrainian and Serbian.