On March 11, 2015, RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich was in Stockholm to take part in a seminar “
The OSCE’s Role in Consolidating European Security
” held within the
Helsinki+40
project by the
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (
UI
). The event was attended by Cochairman ...
RIAC Report #16
The dramatic developments in Ukraine in 2014 have once again demonstrated the relevance of the cooperative crisis management tools and mechanisms of the OSCE.
Issues of strengthening and reforming the OSCE are once again part of the European agenda.
The 40th anniversary of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe represents an important milestone in the development of the ...
On September 25, 2014, Russian International Affairs Council and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly held the international seminar "Helsinki +40 Process: Prospects for Strengthening the OSCE" with participation of the OSCE PA representatives, top European politicians and civil society leaders, Russian parliamentarians ...
... "here and now the balance of world powers is tested," including "check whether the US will be able to really create an effective isolation of Russia."
"We must not allow the US to isolate Russia, including on international arena, in OSCE for example. In my opinion, we manage to achieve it. Because the world is very diverse. When we are said in the West that there is a kind of world community, which condemns us, they mean 28 NATO member states and the EU. However, this is not the ...
... stall heavily, leaving Europe divided. Moreover,
the word “Europe” began to be increasingly used to indicate the European Union, leaving a substantial part of European countries in a type of “gray zone.”
Pan-European Specificities
... ... of the Helsinki Process.
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The wide range of participants (in June 2014, the Council of Europe had 47 member-states and the OSCE – 57 participating countries) constitutes both an advantage and a problem for these organizations. Discussing security ...