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Ambassador Florian Raunig, Permanent Representative of Austria to the OSCE, Chair of the Economic and Environmental Committee opening the Austrian Chairpersonship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), Vienna, 8 September 2021
(Micky Kroell/OSCE) Photo details
The FSC Chairmanship rotates every four months according to (French) alphabetical order. The Chairmanship takes the lead in setting the agenda for each meeting and draws attention to issues concerning the implementation of commitments adopted by the Forum.

Austria currently holds the FSC Chairmanship for the third term of 2021. It was preceded by Armenia and will be followed by Azerbaijan. The FSC Chairperson is assisted by the incoming and the outgoing Chairpersons, who together form the FSC Troika. The three successive Chairmanships of each year jointly develop the Tentative Annual Working Programme of the FSC.

The Austrian FSC Chair will focus on several core areas of the FSC mandate such as the Framework for Arms Control, the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, military doctrines, small arms and light weapons, conventional ammunition. In addition, Austria will steer the negotiations on politico-military decisions ahead of the Stockholm Ministerial Council meeting in December 2021.