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C-130 Hercules planes are used as Open Skies aircraft. The Open Skies Treaty allows States to overfly each others' territory with an observation aircraft. The flights can be used for conflict prevention, crisis management and to protect the environment.

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The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, at the opening of the Annual Security Review Conference, 23 June 2004.

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The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, at the opening of the Annual Security Review Conference, 23 June 2004.

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Search and rescue and fire fighting but also de-mining and bridge construction were part of the field drill conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 28 April 2004.

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An important part of the search and rescue operations conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 28 April 2004 was to provide victims with first aid.

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The OSCE is carrying out its first demining project in Tajikistan since May 2003. Mine detectors are effective tools but they cannot be used in intensively shelled or bombed areas.

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A de-mining trainee in Tajikistan, the site of the OSCE's first mine action project. The excavation method, prodding every inch, is the slowest but safest method.

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A man-portable shoulder-fired air defence missile launcher used in training by the Finnish Defence Forces.

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Juli Minoves Triquell, Foreign Minister of Andorra, speaking on the occasion of the assumption of the Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) Chairmanship by the Principality of Andorra, at the Hofburg in Vienna, 21 January 2004.

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Ambassador Stephan Minikes (left), Head of the US delegation, speaking at the handover ceremony of the OSCE Small Arms and Light Weapons best practice manual, at the OSCE's Maastricht Ministerial Council meeting, 1 December 2003.

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The OSCE Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons was officially presented at the 2003 Ministerial Council in Maastricht, 1 December 2003.

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Ambassador Kuniko Inoguchi of the UN, holding the OSCE Handbook on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which was presented at the 2003 OSCE Ministerial Coucil in Maastricht, 1 December 2003.