Foreign Minister Paet to Participate in Meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers in Kazakhstan
16.07.2010
Nr 232-E
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet will participate in the security policy meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) beginning today in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet stated that topics related to the future of European security will be discussed at the meeting. Among other things, opportunities for the OSCE to help Kyrgyzstan will be addressed. “We must provide aid to Kyrgyzstan in order to keep the situation there as stable as possible, thereby helping to restore order and ensure the security of people in that nation,” said Paet. The foreign minister added that it is also essential to increase the international presence in Kyrgyzstan in order to minimise the potential for new conflicts to emerge and to prevent the spreading of the conflict to other Central Asian nations.
The foreign minister added that other topics to be addressed at the meeting are matters related to Afghanistan, arms control, and developments that have taken place in the Corfu Process, which aims to increase European security.
Within the framework of the OSCE foreign ministers’ meeting, the Estonian foreign minister has many bilateral meetings scheduled, including with the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Armenia, Georgia, Montenegro, and Macedonia*.
Kazakhstan is the chairman of the OSCE in 2010. The last OSCE summit took place in 1999 in Istanbul, and the last informal meeting took place in 2009 in Greece.
