Lieutenant Colonel Sulo Mustafaraj

Lieutenant Colonel Sulo Mustafaraj was appointed as Head of the OSCE High-Level Planning Group on 1 January 2020 by the Albanian OSCE Chairmanship.

He graduated from the Military Academy "Skënderbej", Albania, in 1999 and from the Command and General Staff College, Albania, in 2014.

Prior to becoming Head of the High-Level Planning Group HLPG, Lt. Col. Mustafaraj assumed duties such as: Commander of Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) of the Albanian Air Force; Staff Officer for the Air Forces at the Defense Planning and Monitoring Division (J5/8); Head of Air Policing Section at the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC); Subject Matter Expert for Bilateral Military Cooperation at the Planning Directorate (J5) of the Joint Force Command; Staff Officer for the evaluation of Air Defense Artillery Live Firing at the Operational Branch (A3) of Albanian Air Force HQ.

Lt. Col. Mustafaraj´s international experience includes assignments as Military Expert at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the International Organizations in Vienna, Air Planner at the NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU BGR) in Bulgaria, Subject Mater Expert to the Cooperative Security Environment with focus on Arms Control Pillar at RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation, Zagreb, Croatia.

Mandate
In accordance with the decisions of the 1994 Budapest Summit in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Head of the High-Level Planning Group will make recommendation to the Chairperson-in-Office regarding a possible multinational OSCE peacekeeping force.