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Kazakhstan to chair OSCE in 2010
New Delhi, Dec 10: Kazakhstan will chair the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010. This was announced last month in Madrid at the Ministerial meeting of the OSCE after the discussion of the country"s bid for the chairmanship in the organization.
Kazakhstan"s delegation headed by Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin issued a statement.
It
said:
“For
five-years
Kazakhstan
has
conducted
an
active
campaign
on
promotion
of
its
bid
for
the
presidency
in
the
OSCE.
We
consider
that
the
election
of
Kazakhstan
to
the
post
of
the
OSCE
head
will
have
multiplicative
effect
for
the
comprehensive
modernization
of
our
country,
and
renewal
of
the
organization
to
the
benefit
of
all
its
participants".
It
is
for
the
first
time
in
the
history
of
the
organization
that
the
Chairmanship
is
given
to
a
country
from
the
post
Soviet
space.
“We have gained really a great victory. Kazakhstan has managed to prove its leadership in the region and that it meets all criteria of the organization"s head", Kazakhstan"s Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev said.
Kazakhstan has a reputation of a main integrator at the post-Soviet space.
Thanks to its proactive international and regional policies of peace and security, internal stability, excellent record of religious and ethnic tolerance Kazakhstan has received full support of OSCE member-states to chair the organization. It is regarded as a country who can enrich with its experience the activities of OSCE in all its dimensions.
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