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On 20 August, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev had a telephone conversation regarding issues of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the organization’s future challenges.Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, which chairs the OSCE this year, confirmed plans to appoint Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister Šarūnas Adomavičius as the head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro.

"This is an important assignment, because it will be for the first time that Lithuania’s representative will lead an OSCE mission,” Minister A.Ažubalis said.

There were candidates from Belarus, Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom for the post of the head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.

Altogether eighteen OSCE missions function throughout the South East Europe, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia. The OSCE Mission to Montenegro was established in 2006 and has 46 employees. The budget of the mission is about 2.3 million euro.

The main tasks of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro are: to assist Montenegro in implementing the OSCE principles and commitments, and in  co-operating with the OSCE in all dimensions; to facilitate contacts, co-ordinate activities and promote information exchange with the OSCE chairmanship and other OSCE institutions; to establish and maintain contacts with representatives from local authorities, universities, research institutions and non-governmental organizations and to assist in organizing various events.