“If there is no chairman in 2024 and there is no consensus on this issue, then next year will be the year of the destruction of the OSCE as an organization,” Haavisto said.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
It is noted that according to the charter of the organization, the chairmanship, which is rotated between member countries, must be approved by all 57 member states.
However, this year Russia and Belarus did not support Estonia’s candidacy for the presidency next year, and Estonia itself is not ready to give up its candidacy.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was established in 1994 in Budapest, when a series of meetings on European security and cooperation developed into an independent organization.
The first meeting on security and cooperation in Europe took place in 1975 in Helsinki on the initiative of Finland and the President of Finland Urho Kekkonen personally.
As you know, the OSCE is the only European security association that unites Europe, Russia, the United States and Ukraine, and its main goal is to prevent conflicts, monitor the world and observe elections.
At the same time, Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania Mantas Adomenas said that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in its current form is ineffective. It will remain so as long as it includes aggressor states such as Russia and Belarus.
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2023-05-28 19:12:43
