DURING ADEBATE IN PRAGUE, LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTS OBJECTIVES OF LITHUANIA’S OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP
On 22 February, the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic hosted a discussion “The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century”, during which Lithuanian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Aurimas Taurantas presented the priorities of Lithuania’s OSCE Chairmanship in 2011.
The priorities are: the advancement of the solution to protracted conflicts, fight against international threats, the goal to include energy security in the OSCE’s permanent agenda, the freedom of the media and journalists’ safety, and the promotion of tolerance through education.With regard to the tolerance education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic will host the high-level expert conference “Confronting Anti-Semitism in Public Discourse” on 23-25 March.
At the conference, head of the Prague Office of the OSCE Secretariat Jiří Parkmann delivered a report “Historical Reflections on the OSCE: from Helsinki in 1975 to Paris in 1990.”
Czech First Deputy Foreign Minister Jiří Schneider shared his insights into the role of the OSCE in the modern transatlantic security architecture.
The discussion on the OSCE’s mission to ensure the European security and the future of the organization was moderad by head of the Center for Security Policy Miloš Balaban and attended by former Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, Austrian and French Ambassadors to the Czech Republic and other speakers.
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