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The Permanent Council, one of the main regular decision-making bodies of the Organization, convenes weekly in Vienna to discuss developments in the OSCE area and to make appropriate decisions.

Press releases

Collective response urgently needed to address indivisible security, Russian Foreign Minister tells OSCE states

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference on 23 June 2009 in Vienna. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

VIENNA, 23 June 2009 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on OSCE States to address the future of Euro-Atlantic security and elaborated on Russian proposals for a legally-binding treaty at the start of the Annual Security Review Conference...

Co-Chairs firmly committed to Geneva Discussions to build stability

The Co-Chairs of the Geneva Discussions (l-r): Ambassador Charalampos Christopoulos, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Pierre Morel of the EU and Ambassador Johan Verbeke of the UN, Vienna, 17 June 2009. (OSCE/Vasileios Gkinopoulos)

VIENNA, 17 June 2009 - The Co-Chairs of the Geneva Discussions - representing the UN, OSCE and EU - made clear today that all three organizations remained both firmly committed to and involved in those discussions...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, speaking at OSCE, draws attention to security and stability

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin speaks to the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna, 4 June 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

VIENNA, 4 June 2008 - The international community should find healthy compromises to keep military monitoring officers, stabilize the situation and help sides develop a respectful dialogue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said today.

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A young visitor in the Neuer Saal during the Hofburg Congress Centre Open Day, 21 September 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

A young visitor in the Neuer Saal during the Hofburg Congress Centre Open Day, 21 September 2008. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

Documents

Index of Permanent Council decisions (Nos. 1-835)

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Permanent Council decisions up to December 2007