For several years the OSCE has attempted to lobby and forge the political will to develop police reform in Kyrgyzstan. In June 2010 its police did not have the capacity to anticipate and prevent destabilisation and to maintain a neutral position in the management of the interethnic conflict. (...) The then incumbent Transitional Government understood the need to support the police in restoring trust and confidence and hence requested the OSCE's assistance. A special project called the Community Security Initiative was created and a team of 28 international police advisors, supported by 21 local staff, deployed in January 2011 in twelve sensitive police stations including Osh.
Read moreThe Arab spring has brought back to memory the events of the early 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe and put the OSCE experience in a new perspective. Each participating state, however different their situation may be, is bound by the commitments it has undertaken within the OSCE and it is expected to fulfil them. Although many states are considered to be more advanced, none has a perfect record. All of them are involved in a multidimensional process of building stability, security, prosperity, fostering human dignity and democratic development.
Read moreAfter almost eight years the Russian Federation again allowed the osce to dispatch a team of election observers to monitor the parliamentary elections on the 4th of December last year. It was obvious that the Russian authorities were not particularly pleased with the results of the previous election observation missions which could not avoid noticing serious shortcomings in the various elections in Russia. In the past period the Russians imposed so many restrictions on the numbers and activities of election observers that the osce could not reasonably accept these conditions. Surprisingly last year the osce's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (odihr) managed to get an agreement under which 260 observers were allowed into the country. Although this is less than at previous elections in 2003 and 2004 and much less than the odihr had requested, the number went considerably beyond what Moscow has been willing to accept in the past few years.
Read moreMongolia wants to become the 57th OSCE participating State. It made this intention clear in a letter to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on 28 October 2011. In the letter, the Foreign Minister of Mongolia, Gombojov Zandanshatar, declared the readiness of his country to accept in their entirety all the commitments and responsibilities contained in the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris, and all other OSCE documents. This letter was officially welcomed in a decision (no. 12) of the Vilnius Ministerial Council last December. This year's Chairmanship, Ireland, was tasked to take forward this request at the earliest opportunity.
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