Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut at the opening of the OSCE Summit in Astana, 1 December 2010. (OSCE)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (first from left) waits for the Organization's Review Conference to begin in Warsaw, 30 September 2010. (Piotr Markowski)
OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues Jamila Seftaoui and OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut discuss during a meeting on gender and security between the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. Vienna, 14 June 2010. (OSCE/Susanna Lööf)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (right) during talks with Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev, in Bishkek, 26 April 2008. (OSCE/Florian Encke)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut and Mission to BiH Spokesperson Mersiha Causevic-Podzic do a final check before a television interview with BHTV in Sarajevo, 17 March 2008. (OSCE/Edib Jahic)
Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut during an interview with Finnish TV broadcaster YLE, in his office in Vienna, 9 January 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut speaks at a news conference after the end of the 15th OSCE Ministerial Council in Madrid, 30 November 2007. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)
OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, during the inauguration ceremony of the Organization's new Secretariat, in Vienna 21 November 2007. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)
OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (left), meets the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, in Brussels, 20 November 2007. (Council of the EU)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut talks to OSCE staff during his visit to the region, Prishtine/Pristina, 23 July 2007. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (right) is welcomed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov prior to their talks in Moscow, 14 June 2007. (Photo courtesy AFP/Alexander Nemenov)
L-r: Kazakhstan's Ambassador Kairat Abdrakhmanov, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Head of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre Herbert Salber at the Vienna Roundtable, 13 December 2010. (OSCE/Ursula Froese)