ALL OSCE MEMBERS BACK KAZAKHSTAN PLAN TO HOLD SUMMIT – FOREIGN MINISTRY

Interfax
Feb 16 2010
Russia

Kazakhstan has started discussing the agenda of a Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

summit, which has been backed by most member states, the organization’s
chairman-in-office and Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev
announced.

"The idea of the summit has been backed by almost all countries and
we are discussing its content and date," Saudabayev said at a joint
news conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
after talks in Yerevan on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan has proposed hosting the summit this year, earlier reports
said. But it made it understood that it would not object to another
country staging the meeting.

Astana has also proposed an agenda with further dialogue on building
a common trans-Atlantic and Eurasian architecture of security, and
rehabilitation and assistance for Afghanistan being its key issues.

It also wants the summit to draft an action plan to ensure ethnic
and inter-confessional peace.

Kazakhstan sees the summit as the centerpiece of its presidency of
the OSCE.

The OSCE’s Council of Ministers backed Kazakhstan’s idea to hold the
summit in 2010 at a meeting in Athens in early December.

The OSCE last held a summit in Istanbul in November 1999.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress