Nyhedsbrev fra Ambassadør Andreas Nothelle, uge 11, 12 og 13, 2014

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Special Representative
To:
PA President
and
PA Secretary General
PC Brief Week 13, 2014
This week, there were meetings of the Permanent Council (PC), the Forum for Se-
curity Cooperation (FSC), the Contact Group with the Mediterranean Partners for
Co-operation, the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) and the Advisory Committee
for Management and Finance. Senior Policy Analyst Francesco Pagani participated
in a Training Workshop on the OSCE Code of Conduct in Belgrade.
PA Secretary General Oliver, Programme Director Anna Chernova and Communi-
cations Director Richard Solash stopped in Vienna on their way to Kyiv to hold in-
tensive talks with interlocutors dealing with the crisis in Ukraine and the deployment
of the OSCE’s International Monitoring Mission, including the Chairman of the PC,
the ambassador of Ukraine, the Dep. Director of the Conflict Prevention Center
(CPC) and the Director of the Office of the Representative of the Freedom of the
Media. They also met with the US ambassador.
The PC took no decisions, but held another debate on the situation in Ukraine, un-
der “Current Issues”. The atmosphere between Russia and the countries “West of
Vienna” is more poisoned than ever, also affecting personal relationships. At the
same time, Armenia made a statement about attacks on ethnic Armenians in Syria
by Al Quaida groups allegedly operating from Turkey, resulting in a sharp contro-
versy between the ambassadors of Armenia and Turkey. In the Mediterranean Con-
tact Group, another controversy, this time between Turkey and Egypt, resulted from
Turkish criticism of the death penalties against Muslim Brotherhood activists. During
the same meeting of the Contact Group, which was primarily devoted to elections in
Tunisia, I made a statement about the PA’s election observation in Tunisia two
years ago.
There is still no consensus on the budget. There are rumors that a compromise may
have been found with Russia, but the position of Azerbaijan remains unclear. Also,
after the first round of consultations regarding the successor for director of the
ODIHR, which resulted in an overwhelming support for the German candidate, the
Swiss Chairmanship will now focus its consultations on building consensus around
this candidate.
Andreas Nothelle
Ambassador
March 31, 2014
OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2013-14
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 35
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Special Representative
To:
PA President
and
PA Secretary General
PC Brief Week 12, 2014
These two weeks saw many meetings of the Permanent Council (PC), the Forum for Secu-
rity Cooperation (FSC), the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) and the Advisory Committee
on Management and Finance (ACMF) that were primarily occupied with the crisis in
Ukraine. There were other meetings as well, such as that of the Human Dimension Commit-
tee, but delegations were mostly busy with efforts to reach an agreement on the deploy-
ment of an OSCE monitoring mission. During this time, I spent five days on the election
observation mission in Serbia, Marc Carillet spent most of the second week on a pre-
assessment mission for the election observation in Hungary, and Roberto Montella accom-
panied the PA President on a visit to and conference in Sarajevo. The last Friday was an
OSCE holiday.
On that Friday of the second week, a Special PC finally approved the decision on sending a
monitoring mission to Ukraine. Previously, delegations had managed to get a quick con-
sensus on most aspects of a possible monitoring mission to Ukraine. However, Russia re-
quested to have both the size of the mission and its geographical scope outlined in con-
crete terms in the agreement. The size of the mission is now 100 civilian monitors, but “as
necessary and according to the situation, the mission may expand by a total of up to 400
additional monitors”. While Ukraine and some others dropped their request to have it fo-
cused specifically on Eastern Ukraine, Russia insisted that all the areas of deployment be
listed. In the end, the decision says that monitors will be deployed “initially” to Kherson,
Odessa, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Chernivtsi, and
Luhansk. Any change in deployment will have to be decided by consensus in the Perma-
nent Council. The head office will be in Kyiv.
The recruitment of monitors has already begun. The Director of the Conflict Prevention
Center (CPC), Amb. Kobieracki, will act as Chief Monitor until further notice. In the “Hour
with the Secretary General”, Amb. Zannier called for a swift adoption of the 2014 draft
Budget, as the absence of a budget will soon have severe consequences for the activities
of the OSCE.
The second week’s preceding regular PC was addressed by the acting Foreign Minister of
Ukraine, followed by a debate on Ukraine. I delivered a brief statement on the issue, as
requested by PA President Krivokapic. The PC also took decisions on the dates of the Hu-
man Dimension Implementation Meeting, on the topics for the second part of the Human
Dimension Implementation Meeting, on the topic and dates of the Human Dimension Semi-
nar in Warsaw, and on the Agenda, Timetable and Modalities for the Third Annual Discus-
sion on the Implementation of the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security,
as well as a declaration on the upcoming elections in Afghanistan.
Andreas Nothelle
Ambassador
March 24, 2014
OSCEs Parlamentariske Forsamling 2013-14
OSCE Alm.del Bilag 35
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