Summits / Ministerial Councils

Budapest Ministerial Council

When: 7 December 1995

Where: Budapest

The Mission started its work on 29 December 1995, initially relying on the limited mission that had been operating in Sarajevo since October 1994. The OSCE role in Bosnia and Herzegovina - and in Croatia, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and other parts of the region - were top items on the Ministerial Council's agenda.

Also in Budapest, the Chairman-in-Office, Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs, presented a progress report on OSCE discussions on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe for the Twenty-First Century. Discussions continued into 1996  and the results were discussed at the Lisbon Summit that year.