OSCE Troika meets with Asian Partners

The OSCE Troika of the current, preceding and future Chairmanships met on 7 December 2012 with high-level representatives from the Asian Partner countries on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin.

Joe Costello, Minister of State from the Irish Foreign Ministry, opened the meeting. Representatives of Afghanistan, Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Thailand, as well as the 2011 Chairmanship of Lithuania, the current Irish Chair and the 2013 Chairmanship of Ukraine took part, along with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier.

They discussed the participating States’ co-operation with the Asian Partners, including projects with Afghanistan, such as the training of border experts from the country with their Central Asian counterparts at the OSCE’s Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe.

“The Asian Partners for Co-operation consistently provide valuable inputs to our political dialogue and co-operation, through proposals for concrete co-operative activities, and through financial contributions,” said Costello.