OSCE Chair in Office and Secretary General at NATO to present the Organization’s contribution to co-operative security response regarding Ukraine

BERN/VIENNA, 3 September 2014 - OSCE Chair in Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, and Secretary General Lamberto Zannier are to present the Organization’s response to the Ukraine crisis during an event at the NATO Summit in Newsport, Wales.

Burkhalter and Zannier will take part in the event organized by the government of the United Kingdom entitled Implications of the crisis in and around Ukraine for European security at large on Friday September 5 alongside EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland. Burkhalter will outline the Chairmanship’s view on the situation and the contributions of the OSCE to international efforts at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine in this session of the Foreign Ministers of NATO.