Short presentation about the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe. Including : structure, leaders,history, introduction, activities etc.

1. ORGANIZATION
FOR SECURITY
AND CO-
OPERATION IN
EUROPE
Dilan Priyantha Wickramasinghe – Group
No 33

2. What is OSCE ?
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 The Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's
largest security-oriented intergovernmental
organization. Its mandate includes issues such
as arms control and the promotion of human
rights, freedom of the press and fair elections. It
employs around 400 people in its secretariat
in Vienna, Austria, 200 in its institutions and
2,100 field staff. It has its origins in the 1975
Conference on Security and Co-operation in
Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland.

3. Introduction
 The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to
security that encompasses politico-military,
economic and environmental, and human
aspects. It therefore addresses a wide range of
security-related concerns, including arms control,
confidence- and security-building measures,
human rights, national minorities,
democratization, policing strategies, counter-
terrorism and economic and environmental
activities. All 57 participating States enjoy equal
status, and decisions are taken by consensus on
a politically, but not legally binding basis.
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Structure
of
OSCE

5. OSCE Over-view
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 Composed of:
• 57 Participating States
• 11 Partners of Operation
• 2850 Field and Headquarter
operators
• A budget totaling $145 million
Euros

6. Presses on Security Issues such
as:6
• Arms control
• Human Rights
• Freedom of Press
• Fair Elections
• Early Conflict Warning
• Conflict Prevention
• Crisis Management
• Post-Conflict Rehabilitation

7. How it began….
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• Originally began as CSCE in
1973 ( Conference on Security
and Co-operation in Europe ) ,
served to mediate talks between
East and West Europe in Cold
War.
• Finalized the Helsinki Accords.
(30 July – 1 August 1975)
• In 1994, the CSCE was
repurposed due to the Soviet

8. Leaders
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• Secretary-General - Lamberto Zannier (Italy)
• Chairman-in-Office - Ivica Dacic (Serbia)
• Officer for DemocraticInstitutions andHuman
Rights
- Michael Georg Link (Germany)
• Representative on Freedom of the Media -
Dunja Mijatovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina )
• High Commisioner on National Minorities –
Astrid Thors (Finland)

9. Secretary-General
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 The incumbent of this post acts as the
representative of the Chairperson-in-Office, and
as the OSCE's chief administrative officer. Since
the post was created in 1992, Secretaries-
General of the OSCE have been:
 Wilhelm Hoynck (1993–1996)
 Giancarlo Aragona (1996–1999)
 Ján Kubiš (1999–2005)
 Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (2005–2011)
 Lamberto Zannier (2011– until now)

10. Chairmanship
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The responsibilities of the Chairman-in-Office
(CiO) include
 co-ordination of the work of OSCE institutions;
 representing the Organization;
 supervising activities related to conflict
prevention, crisis management and post-conflict
rehabilitation.
The chairmanship rotates annually, and the post of
the chairman-in-office is held by the foreign

11. Relations with the United
Nations11
 The OSCE considers itself a regional
organization in the sense of Chapter VIII of the
United Nations Charter and is an observer in
the United Nations General Assembly. The
Chairman-in-Office gives routine briefings to
the United Nations Security Council.

12. Activities
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• Stops the spread of illegal weapons and
tries to destroy them.
• Protects borders of countries such as
Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Dushanbe.
• Stopping human trafficking.
• Provide early warning and prevention of
terrorist activities.
• Aids in economic growth.
• Gender equality, environmental
protection.

13. Allegations of pro-Russian bias
(2014)13
 The organization has come under increasing
criticism in the Russian–Ukraine conflict. The
organization has also been criticized by
Ukraine for failing to monitor the
implementation of the Minsk Protocol .
(Representatives of Ukraine, the Russian
Federation, the Donetsk People's
Republic (DPR), and the Lugansk People's
Republic (LPR) signed the Minsk Protocol,
an agreement to halt the war in the Donbass
region of Ukraine, on 5 September 2014 )

14. Map of the
buffer zone
established
by the Minsk
Protocol
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