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The OSCE Secretariat, under the direction of the Secretary General, provides operational support to the Organization. It is based in Vienna, and assisted by an office in Prague.

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OSCE Minsk Group issues statement

Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries meet with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the 17th OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens, 1 December 2009. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)

ATHENS, 1 December 2009 - The Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of France Bernard Kouchner, and Deputy Secretary of State of the United States James Steinberg...

OSCE removes threat posed by toxic rocket fuel component from south-west Ukrainian town, starts work at second site

Ukrainian armed forces personnel remove the last melange from the Kalynivka storage site in the Vinnytsya region of Ukraine, 24 January 2010. (OSCE/Leonid Kalashnyk)

KALYNIVKA, Ukraine, 26 January 2010 - The last train removing a highly toxic and volatile rocket fuel component from a storage site near the south-western Ukrainian town Kalynivka left today as part of an OSCE project that is set to remove the threat...

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The OSCE Secretariat was established by the Charter of Paris in 1990. It first opened in Prague in 1991 before moving to Vienna in 1993. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

The OSCE Secretariat was established by the Charter of Paris in 1990. It first opened in Prague in 1991 before moving to Vienna in 1993. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)