Troika

Every year, the OSCE Chairpersonship rotates among the Organization’s participating States, with the foreign minister of the respective State taking over the helm as Chairperson-in-Office. In 1990, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe conceived of the so-called Troika—the Chairperson-in-Office of the previous and the following year joining the current office-holder, in an effort to bring an element of continuity to the OSCE’s leadership. This function was formally institutionalized in the Helsinki Document 1992.