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Strong partnerships key for security in the digital era – main message from opening of 2019 OSCE Asian Conference in Tokyo
Publishing date: 2 September 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Chairmanship
Tokyo, 2 September 2019 – Speaker after speaker reconfirmed that strengthening co-operation between OSCE participating States and its Asian Partners for Co-operation is key to achieving comprehensive security in the digital era at today’s opening of the 20th Asian Conference in Japan.
Effective multilateralism for regional security challenges- Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl opens high-level conference on Europe and Asia Pacific in Vienna
Publishing date: 16 May 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Secretary General
VIENNA, 16 May 2018- Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl opened today the high-level conference Effective Multilateralism in a Globalized World – The Case of Europe and Asia Pacific in Vienna. The conference takes place in the framework of the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE Asian Contact Group. It aims to reassess the main security challenges in both the European and Asia-Pacific regions together with representatives of OSCE participating States, international organizations – the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in particular- but also civil society, academia and the media.
Preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism focus of OSCE-supported inter-regional conference in Seoul
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
SEOUL, 19 April 2018- More than 150 experts from across the OSCE area and the Asian region gathered in Seoul today for an inter-regional conference on preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Korea in close co-operation with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...
Japan Foreign Minister Kono and OSCE Secretary General Greminger meet in Vienna to discuss furthering co-operation and joint activities
Publishing date: 15 February 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Secretary General
Vienna, 15 February 2018 – Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Kono today met with Secretary General Thomas Greminger at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, where they discussed Japan’s continuing engagement within the OSCE Asian Partnership and possible areas of further co-operation. The visit was the first ever to the OSCE by a Japanese foreign minister.
Participants of 2017 OSCE Asian Conference on Common Challenges and Opportunities call for heightened co-operation among regional organizations
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
Berlin, 19 June 2017 – Making full use of the OSCE Asian Partnership as a forum for addressing common challenges is essential to ensure comprehensive security in the OSCE region and its neighbourhood, emphasized participants at the opening of the OSCE Asian Conference in Berlin today.
2015 OSCE Asian Conference on The Changing Global Security Environment and Visions of Multilateral Security Co-operation in Asia opens in Seoul
Publishing date: 1 June 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
SEOUL, 1 June 2015 –Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Tanasak Patimapragorn, Ambassador Vuk Žugić from the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier opened the 2015 OSCE Asian Conference by emphasizing the need for increased co-operation between the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in tackling today’s non-traditional and transnational threats...
Participants of OSCE-Japan conference in Tokyo share experiences in addressing emerging challenges, creating safer world
Publishing date: 17 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
TOKYO, 17 June 2014 – Creating a safer, more interconnected and fairer world in the face of emerging challenges in the larger OSCE area is a theme of the OSCE-Japan conference that concluded in Tokyo today...