OSCE Vows to Work Intensively on Conflict Resolution Issues

Solomon Passy, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, said, in his closing statement at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Sofia on December 7, that the organization will work intensively to solve the conflicts in the post-Soviet space.

“In the months and years ahead, we will continue to work intensively to achieve lasting settlements in Georgia, Moldova and Nagorno-Karabakh. Courageous decisions will be required from all the parties concerned and the OSCE must remain fully engaged,” Solomon Passy said.

In his remarks to the Ministerial Council, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on December 7 that ?a new push from the OSCE? is needed to solve frozen conflicts.