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Photo gallery: 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council

The 23rd Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council will be held in Hamburg on 8 and 9 December 2016.
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2016 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the opening press conference of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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2016 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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2016 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier to the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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Plenary hall during the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the opening session of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier during the opening session of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen during the opening session of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier working at the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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OSCE Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegations pose for a family photo at the 23rd Ministerial Council in Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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(L-r) Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group on the implementation of the peace plan in the East of Ukraine Martin Sajdik, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre Marcel Peṧko, and the 2016 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at "The Crisis in and around Ukraine - Challenges and OSCE Responses" side event on the margins of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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Winners of the regional “Peer-2-Peer: Challenging Extremism” OSCE competition after the award ceremony on the margins of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council: teams from University of Ljubljana (1st place), Simon Fraser University (2d place), Lund University (3d place), Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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Paul Bekkers, Director of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General, and representatives of the OSCE Ministerial Troika at the meeting with the OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation on the margins of the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, Hamburg, 8 December 2016.
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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier (r) at a press briefing during the 23rd Ministerial Council in Hamburg, 9 December 2016.
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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (l) alongside incoming Chairperson, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, speaking at the conclusion of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg, 9 December 2016.
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Photos from the 23rd OSCE Ministerial Council, taking place on 8-9 December 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.

Learn more: www.osce.org/oscemc16

Date Date:
6 December 2016
Source Source:
Summits / Ministerial Councils

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