5th Ministerial Council

In Budapest, foreign ministers agreed to establish the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina to carry out the tasks assigned to the OSCE in the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the 'Dayton Peace Accords').

The Mission started its work on 29 December 1995, initially relying on the limited mission that had been operating in Sarajevo since October 1994. The OSCE role in Bosnia and Herzegovina - and in Croatia, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and other parts of the region - were top items on the Ministerial Council's agenda.

Also in Budapest, the Chairman-in-Office, Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs, presented a progress report on OSCE discussions on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe for the Twenty-First Century. Discussions continued into 1996  and the results were discussed at the Lisbon Summit that year.

Final Decisions and Declarations

The following decisions and declarations were adopted at the 5th OSCE Ministerial Council in Budapest:

• Decision on OSCE Action for peace, democracy and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Decision on a common and comprehensive security model for Europe for the XXI century: a new Concept for a new century
• Decision on the OSCE Minsk process

The full texts of the decisions and declarations can be found in the Final Document of the 11th OSCE Ministerial Council.

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