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OSCE monitors patrolling in eastern Ukraine, 27 September 2016.

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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier (c) together with the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Nina Suomalainen (r) and Deputy Head of the Mission, Jeffrey Goldstein (l) during a meeting with representatives of civil society organizations, Skopje, 9 March 2017.

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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier (l) arrives at the meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki, Skopje, 9 March 2017.

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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier meets religious leaders on his visit to Kosovo, 10 March 2017.

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(L-r) Henrik Villadsen, Director and Officer-in-Charge at the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities; Clemens Koja, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council; Katarzyna Jarosiewicz-Wargan, First Deputy Director at the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights; Lamberto Zannier, OSCE Secretary General; and Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), present a new OSCE-UNHCR handbook of international standards and good practices to address statelessness in the OSCE area, Vienna, 2 March 2017.

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Civilians make the dangerous crossing over a damaged bridge in Stanytsia Luhanska, 16 December 2016.

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L-r: Sarah Stephan, HCNM project officer; Ilze Brands Kehris, elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee; Tina Gogheliani, Head of the Civic Integration Unit of the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality; and Dmitri Burnashev, Director of the Integration and Migration Foundation Our People, Estonia, attend a conference organized by the office of the HCNM and Moldova’s Bureau of Inter-ethnic Relations on implementing Moldova’s Strategy for Consolidation of Inter-ethnic Relations 2017–2027, Chisinau, 16 February 2017.

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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (l) and Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova Pavel Filip at a joint press conference, Chisinau, 4 February 2017.

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Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process Ambassador Wolf-Dietrich Heim (c), OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (r) and Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Ambassador Michael Scanlan (l), on the road to Tiraspol, 4 February 2017.

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Ambassador Cristian Istrate of Romania, Chairperson of the Forum for Security Co-operation (l) and William Alberque, Head of Arms Control and Coordination Section at NATO (f-r) address the Forum, Vienna, 1 February 2017.

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Ambassador Wolf-Dietrich Heim (c), Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, and Ambassador Michael Scanlan (r), Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, speaking at a press conference, Chisinau, 20 January 2017.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Visit to Eastern Ukraine

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On the 3 to 4 January 2017, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sebastian Kurz visited Eastern Ukraine. In 2017, Austria took over from Germany as OSCE Chairmanship, with the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz as the new Chairperson-in-Office.