AFTER 11 YEARS’ INTERVAL OSCE SUMMIT IS LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE IN LATE 2010 IN KAZAKHSTAN
Noyan Tapan
Feb 16, 2010
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia supports Kazakhstan’s
President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s initiative to hold an OSCE summit in
late 2010 in Kazakhstan. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated
at a February 16 joint press conference with OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
Kazakhstan’s State Secretary-Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev. He
mentioned that Armenia also supports the idea of holding an informal
consultation of OSCE member states’ Foreign Ministers in July in
Kazakhstan.
K. Saudabayev, in his turn, noted that 11 years have passed since
the last OSCE summit in Istanbul. New challenges and threats emerged
in that period, many of which changed the traditional perception of
war and enemy, in particular, international terrorism. Protracted
conflicts have not been solved, either, on the contrary, new ones
have appeared, Afghanistan is as before a source of international
terrorism and supplier of drugs, there are problems of European
security and new architecture. "These are the issues that should
become a subject of discussion of OSCE member-states’ leaders,"
the OSCE Chairman-in-Office considers.