Skopje — The OSCE closed its thirtieth Ministerial Council on 1 December with something it has rarely managed lately: decisions. Ministers and envoys in Skopje confirmed Malta as chair for 2024 and extended the mandates of the organisation’s four top officials by nine months — keeping the institution functioning for another year in a war […]
Vienna — North Macedonia took over the chairmanship of the OSCE this month, becoming the smallest country to lead Europe’s largest security organisation — and inheriting an institution that has not had a properly agreed budget since 2021. Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani presented his country’s priorities to the Permanent Council in Vienna on 12 January, […]
Vienna — The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine formally ended on 31 March after Russia refused to join consensus on extending its mandate, closing down the largest field operation in the organisation’s history eight years and one day after it began. The mission, launched on 21 March 2014 as Russian forces consolidated their hold […]