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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Japan Foreign Minister Kono and OSCE Secretary General Greminger meet in Vienna to discuss furthering co-operation and joint activities
Publishing date: 15 February 2018
Vienna, 15 February 2018 – Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Kono today met with Secretary General Thomas Greminger at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, where they discussed Japan’s continuing engagement within the OSCE Asian Partnership and possible areas of further co-operation. The visit was the first ever to the OSCE by a Japanese foreign minister.
Participants of 2017 OSCE Asian Conference on Common Challenges and Opportunities call for heightened co-operation among regional organizations
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
Berlin, 19 June 2017 – Making full use of the OSCE Asian Partnership as a forum for addressing common challenges is essential to ensure comprehensive security in the OSCE region and its neighbourhood, emphasized participants at the opening of the OSCE Asian Conference in Berlin today.
2015 OSCE Asian Conference on The Changing Global Security Environment and Visions of Multilateral Security Co-operation in Asia opens in Seoul
Publishing date: 1 June 2015
SEOUL, 1 June 2015 –Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Tanasak Patimapragorn, Ambassador Vuk Žugić from the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier opened the 2015 OSCE Asian Conference by emphasizing the need for increased co-operation between the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in tackling today’s non-traditional and transnational threats...
Participants of OSCE-Japan conference in Tokyo share experiences in addressing emerging challenges, creating safer world
Publishing date: 17 June 2014
TOKYO, 17 June 2014 – Creating a safer, more interconnected and fairer world in the face of emerging challenges in the larger OSCE area is a theme of the OSCE-Japan conference that concluded in Tokyo today...
Japanese Defence Minister visits OSCE, discusses strengthening future interaction
Publishing date: 30 July 2013
Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera visited the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna on 30 July 2013 to discuss current co-operation with the Organization and explore ways to strengthen it in the future...
OSCE Troika meets with Asian Partners
Publishing date: 7 December 2012
The OSCE Troika of the current, preceding and future Chairmanships met on 7 December 2012 with high-level representatives from the Asian Partner countries on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin
Mongolian foreign minister addresses OSCE Permanent Council, expresses hope to expand co-operation
Publishing date: 9 June 2011
Mongolian Foreign Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar addressed a special session of the OSCE Permanent Council on 9 June 2011, outlining Mongolia’s co-operation with the Organization as well as developments in the country...