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Gasparovic and Dzurinda Due to Take Part in OSCE Summit in Astana
Monday 29 November 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) - President Ivan Gasparovic and Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda will leave Tuesday for an OSCE summit in Astana, Kazakhstan on December 1-2, Presidential Office's press department informed TASR on Monday.
After the recent NATO-Russia summit in Lisbon, this will be another occasion aimed at improving relations between East and West. The ambition of the summit is to deepen the negotiations on security problems in the stretching from Vancouver and Vladivostok.
Slovakia is interested in reaching an agreement on modernising the regime of both armaments and disarmament and providing OSCE with the necessary tools and a mandate enforcing more flexible conflict prevention. Slovakia wants to see the OSCE have a more important role in the sphere of energy security, as this directly influences its national security.
Two years after the violent conflict in Georgia, OSCE's role in providing a forum for EU and NATO member states and non-members should be re-established.
In Astana, the world leaders are also hoping to define the new role for OSCE in the 21st century. The most urgent security threats due to be dealt with on the summit include the ongoing conflicts on the former Soviet Union territories, terrorism, human and drug trafficking, nuclear weapons, energy and other supra-national issues.
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