Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas will be in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 6 and 7 December 2011 to participate in the proceedings of the 18th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
The OSCE Ministerial will discuss and adopt decisions concerning the Organizations three security dimensions. The 2011 Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship has undertaken to continue the Corfu Process, which was launched in 2009 by the Greek OSCE Chairmanship, opening a Dialogue on European Security. Our country aligns itself with the main priorities of the EU, having as its goal the transformation of the OSCE region into a “Security Community” where security will be built jointly by participating states, and where the threat of violence will cease to exist as an option in inter-state relations.
On the margins of the Ministerial, Mr. Dimas will have a number of bilateral meeting with his counterparts, including the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Greek MP Petros Efthimiou, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will address the opening session of the Ministerial Council.
December 6, 2011