KHALEEJ TIMES 2 December 2010 ASTANA - The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, opened on Wednesday in Astana the first OSCE Summit in 11 years, calling the gathering a "triumph of common sense" and urging the heads of state and government from the 56 OSCE participating States to "advance together towards a secure future for our peoples". "This journey was started three and a half decades ago," said President Nazarbayev in his opening

COPENHAGEN, 2 December 2010 – Tony Lloyd, Member of the British Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has been appointed by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev, as Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE Short-Term Observer Mission to the 19 December presidential election in Belarus. Mr. Lloyd has also been appointed by Assembly President Petros Efthymiou to head the OSCE PA’s

PanARMENIAN.Net 1 December 2010 Мир нуждается в такой уникальной организации как ОБСЕ, поскольку затянувшиеся конфликты и их последствия по-прежнему влияют на будущее организации и по-прежнему существует угроза применения силы. Об этом, выступая на пленарном заседании саммита ОБСЕ в Астане, заявил президент Парламентской Ассамблеи (ПА) ОБСЕ Петрос Эфтимиу. «Эта организация также нужна, поскольку нестабильность в соседних регионах по-прежнему

EURASIANET.ORG 1 December 2010 The first day of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summit in Kazakhstan produced consensus on the need to address security threats. But as participants prepared for the final day of the gathering, deep divisions remained on key democratization issues, including human rights standards. OSCE officials and leaders of the 56 participating states were quick to embrace calls to revitalize the

TIMES.AM 1 December 2010 The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, opened today in Astana the first OSCE Summit in 11 years, calling the gathering a "triumph of common sense" and urging the Heads of State and Government from the 56 OSCE participating States to "advance together towards a secure future for our peoples", official web-site of OSCE informs. "This journey was started three and a half decades ago," said President Nazarbayev

ANA-MPA 1 December 2010 Astana-Kazakhstan (ANA-MPA/G. Milionis) -- A Summit meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) opened at the Palace of Independence in the Kazakh capital Astana on Wednesday morning, with Greece represented by prime minister George Papandreou and foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas. Papandreou on Wednesday held a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the 2-day OSCE summit, the