Nyhedsbrev fra Ambassadør Andreas Nothelle, uge 05, 2014

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Special Representative
To:
PA President
and
PA Secretary General
PC Brief Week 5, 2014
This week, there were meetings of the Permanent Council (PC), the Forum for Security
Cooperation (FSC), several committees and the “First Preparatory Meeting of the 22nd
OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum (EEF) ‘Responding to environmental chal-
lenges with a view to promoting co-operation and security in the OSCE area’”.
The PC debated presentations by the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in his
capacity as Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and by the
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Mauer. In my reply to
the minister, I recalled the many welcome contributions by the Austrian side to the work
of the OSCE PA, and referred to the upcoming Winter Meeting. I also highlighted the co-
operation between the OSCE PA and PACE. Finally, I suggested that the minister might
support the OSCE PA’s efforts to strengthen its role within the organization and to ac-
quire competences regarding senior appointments and the budget that are similar to
those of PACE. In conjunction with the weekly report by the OSCE chairmanship, the
delegations debated the possibility of an OSCE mediation in Ukraine. I stated that the
OSCE PA, its president and its members stand ready to provide a helping hand to the
chairmanship, in the event they decide to undertake such efforts.
The FSC debated the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Affairs. One of the in-
troducers was the Head of the Maltese PA delegation, Christopher Fearne. Upon request
by the OSCE Secretariat and the FSC Coordinator for the Code of Conduct, I made an-
other statement on the issue (PA.GAL/2/14).
The EEF turned out to be extremely dry and technical event, with an obvious lack of in-
terest from delegations, visible in particular on the second day of the meeting. There is
still no consensus on the 2014 OSCE budget, although the chairmanship has offered an-
other compromise proposal.
The interest in the upcoming PA Winter Meeting remains very high. We are in close con-
tact with several ambassadors on issues related to the meeting, including with the am-
bassador of Afghanistan. I also received some first comments, all of them positive, about
the announcement of the PA’s Helsinki+40 Project in the latest News from Copenhagen.
Andreas Nothelle
Ambassador
January 31, 2014
OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2013-14
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 17
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