Diplomats discuss quiet and preventive diplomacy at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan

Young diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan discussed quiet and preventive diplomacy mechanisms at an OSCE-supported course that ended in Ashgabat on 30 November 2012.

The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, organized the three-day course.

“Quiet and preventive diplomacy offers a range of effective instruments for early conflict prevention and preserving peace by addressing the root and proximate causes of conflicts”, said Ambassador Ivo Petrov, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat.

An international expert presented quiet and preventive diplomacy mechanisms in contemporary international relations and international law as well as options, techniques and practices of quiet diplomacy. The young diplomats also reviewed the work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities as an example of an effective instrument for quiet diplomacy and discussed how quiet diplomacy can address specific issues in dispute.