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3 unusual facts about Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe


Border Troops Academy

Special courses are held here, overseen by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Niels Juel-class corvette

On several occasions, the vessels took part in operations for NATO, UN, OSCE and coalition forces.

Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests

On 3 July 2009, Russia's delegation at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s annual parliamentary meeting stormed out after a resolution was passed equating the roles of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in starting World War II, drafted by a delegate from the host nation and former Soviet republic Lithuania.


1997 Moscow Memorandum

It was signed in Moscow on 8 May 1997, by Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi and Transnistrian President Igor Smirnov, with the mediation of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the Niels Helveg Petersen on behalf of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Mission in Moldova.

Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Since then his publications are mainly focused on human rights, cooperative security, CSBMs, multilateral security structures (NATO, EU, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)) and political and legal structures of the security system in Europe.

Aslan Maskhadov

Maskhadov nominated himself for President of Ichkeria on 3 December 1996, for the January 1997 free democratic presidential and parliamentary elections held in Chechnya under the aegis of the OSCE, running primarily against Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.

Miroslav Jenča

Between 2004-2007 he led the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Center in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Famous MGIMO alumni include President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Russia’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, Andrei Kozyrev, OSCE Secretary General and foreign minister of Slovakia Ján Kubiš, Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova, and CEO of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, Felix Vulis, Moldovan Prime minister, Iurie Leanca.

Nigel Haywood

In 1992 he be became the Deputy Consul-General in Johannesburg and in 1996 he was appointed Deputy Head of the UK's Delegation to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna.

Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: Improved mechanisms to consider stability police increases in coordination with the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units

Pierre Graber

On 1 August 1975, he signed the Helsinki Final Act of the CSCE on behalf of Switzerland.


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