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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

A regional security organization promoting human rights, arms control, and democratic elections across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

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The OSCE is an intergovernmental body focused on regional security, with participating states located across Europe, North America, and Asia.[1] Arms control, human rights advocacy, press freedom, and ensuring free and fair elections all fall under the OSCE's mandate.[1] Roughly 3,460 individuals work for the OSCE, with the majority deployed in field operations; the organization also holds observer status at the United Nations.[1]

Quick Facts

Linking name
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Membership
57 participating countries; 11 partners for co-operation
Official languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Facts from the source article.

Key facts and history

The Moscow Mechanism was agreed in 1991.[2] The mission to Moldova aims to facilitate a political settlement of the Transnistria conflict.[3] The Bosnian War concluded in 1995 with the Dayton Agreement, and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina was mandated to help secure lasting peace.[4] The mission to Montenegro began with the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum.[5]

The six official languages of the OSCE are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.[6] During the Cold War, a forum for dialogue between the Western and Eastern blocs emerged from the OSCE's forerunners, which originated in 1975.[7] On 3 July 1973, the Helsinki process began in Helsinki with 35 states sending delegates.[8] At a summit in Istanbul on 19 November 1999, the OSCE adopted a Charter for European Security and called for a political resolution in Chechnya.[9]

The OSCE Mission to Georgia was created in November 1992 and ceased operations when its mandate ended on 31 December 2008.[10][11] Following Slobodan Milošević's loss of power in 2000, the OSCE initiated its current mission to Serbia.[12]

What the cited sources add

The United Nations is the OSCE’s primary partner organization, and the UN granted the CSCE observer status in October 1993.[13] Critics said that because Hastings was president, the monitoring would be partisan and biased.[14] The OSCE observers reported that the 2004 U.S. elections were conducted in an orderly and peaceful manner reflecting a long democratic tradition.[14] The OSCE Mission to Georgia's original mandate, adopted on 13 December 1992, was to promote negotiations for a peaceful political settlement.[11]

In April 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took issue with an OSCE report stating that "No" campaigners in Turkey's constitutional referendum encountered bans and police interventions.[15][16]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Galbreath, "The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)", Routledge, 2007; "United Nations", www.osce.org, 10 December 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Moscow mechanism", OSCE (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE Mission to Moldova" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE MISSION TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE MISSION TO MONTENEGRO" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE website now available in six official languages", OSCE Secretariat, 30 June 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Galbreath, "The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)", Routledge, 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Final Recommendations of the Helsinki Consultations", Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 3 July 1973 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The OSCEs Istanbul Charter for European Security", NATO Review, 1 July 2000; "The OSCEs Istanbul Charter for European Security", NATO Review, 1 July 2000 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)", OSCE, n.d. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)", OSCE, n.d.. facts only, no text reused. osce.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "OSCE MISSION TO SERBIA" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  13. "United Nations", www.osce.org, 10 December 2019. facts only, no text reused. osce.org
  14. "US vote 'mostly free and fair'", BBC, 5 November 2004. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk
  15. Wikipedia, "Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Erdogan slams OSCE ahead of constitutional referendum" . Euronews. 14 April 2017.; "President Erdoğan slams OSCE over referendum campaign report ". Hürriyet. 14 April 2017.; "OSCE: Turkey referendum 'contested on an unlevel playing field'" . Deutsche Welle, 17 April 2017. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  16. "Erdogan slams OSCE ahead of constitutional referendum" . Euronews. 14 April 2017.. facts only, no text reused. euronews.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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