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OSCE Assessment Mission To Armenia
An OSCE Needs Assessment Team in Armenia was deployed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the territory of the Republic of Armenia between 21 and 27 October 2022 following the Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis. Timeline of events On 18 October 2022, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan stated that the deployment of OSCE observers in addition to 40 European Union monitoring experts to the Armenia–Azerbaijan border from the Armenian side was under discussion. On 19 October 2022, the OSCE confirmed it would deploy a "needs assessment team" to Armenia between 21–27 October 2022, following a request made by the Government of Armenia. The team was composed of international experts and representatives of the OSCE Secretariat. The team assessed the situation in certain border areas and held consultations with international partners. On 20 October 2022, the EU confirmed that the OSCE mission is independent and non–related to the EU's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has its origins in the mid-1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland. The OSCE is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation. Most of its 57 participating countries are in Europe, but there are a few members present in Asia and North America. The participating states cover much of the land area of the Northern Hemisphere. It was created during the Cold War era as a forum for discussion between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Lacôte
Jonathan Lacôte (born 15 September 1972) is a French diplomat who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Armenia from 2017 to 2021. Biography Jonathan Lacôte attended school in Hove (United Kingdom), Treillières, Nantes and Lycée Condorcet in Paris. A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Hungarian and Estonian, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the competition of foreign affairs adviser in 1997. He has taught as a lecturer at IEP Paris and at INALCO. After serving in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), he was appointed an adviser to the French Embassy in Belgrade (then in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) in 2001 before becoming the head of the office of the French Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro, before the country's accession to independence, in 2003. A first Secretary at the French Embassy in Berlin in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia–Azerbaijan Relations
There are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, largely due to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The two neighboring states had formal governmental relations between 1918 and 1921, during their brief independence from the collapsed Russian Empire, as the First Republic of Armenia and the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan; these relations existed from the period after the Russian Revolution until they were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union, becoming the constituent republics of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan. Due to the two wars waged by the countries in the past century—one from 1918 to 1921 and another from 1988 to 1994—the two have had strained relations. In the wake of ongoing hostilities, social memory of Soviet-era cohabitation is widely repressed (censored and stigmatized). History Relations between 1918 and 1921 Upon the disintegration of the Transcaucasian Federation with the proclamation of the independent Democratic Republic of Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Mission Of Armenia To The OSCE
The Permanent Mission of Armenia to the OSCE ( hy, ԵԱՀԿ-ում Հայաստանի մշտական ներկայացուցչություն, translit=YeAHK-um Hayastani mshtakan nerkayats’uts’ch’ut’yun) is the diplomatic mission of Armenia to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). It is based in Vienna, Austria. History Armenia acceded to the OSCE on 30 January 1992. The Permanent Mission of Armenia to the OSCE was established to facilitate closer ties between Armenia, the OSCE, and OSCE member states. The mission brings forth issues and concerns related to Armenia to the OSCE and arranges diplomatic meetings. The Permanent Mission is also accredited as the Armenian Embassy to Austria and Slovakia. Permanent representative As of 11 January 2019, the head of the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the OSCE is Armen Papikyan, who is also the ambassador of Armenia to Austria and Slovakia. See also * Foreign relations of Armenia * List of dipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaijanis until their expulsion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Some of these territories are ''de facto'' controlled, and some are claimed by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh although they have been internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. The conflict has its origins in the early 20th century, but the present conflict began in 1988, when the Karabakh Armenians demanded transferring Karabakh from Soviet Azerbaijan to Soviet Armenia. The conflict escalated into a full-scale war in the early 1990s which later transformed into a low-intensity conflict until four-day escalation in April 2016 and then into another full-scale war in 2020. A ceasefire signed in 1994 in Bishkek was followed by two decades of relative stability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Relations Of Armenia
Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of complementarism by trying to have positive and friendly relations with Iran, Russia, and the West, including the United States and the European Union. It has full membership status in a number of international organizations and observer status, etc. in some others. However, the dispute over the Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ... of 1915 and the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have created tense relations with two of its immediate neighbors, Azerbaijan and Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Armenia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs implements the foreign policy agenda of the Government of Armenia and organizes and manages diplomatic services abroad. Since August 2021, Ararat Mirzoyan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia–OSCE Relations
Armenia–OSCE relations began when Armenia joined the OSCE's predecessor, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), on 30 January 1992. The CSCE transformed into the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) shortly afterwards in 1995. History Armenia is a full member of the OSCE having signed the Helsinki Accords on 8 July 1992 and the Paris Charter on 17 April 1992. Armenia is also signatory to several OSCE conventions and treaties such as the Charter for European Security and the Adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, signed in 1999. An OSCE office was established in Yerevan on 16 February 2000 to further facilitate relations with Armenia. On 31 August 2017, the OSCE office in Yerevan discontinued its operations following Azerbaijan's decision to veto the extension of the office's mandate. After the closure of the OSCE Yerevan office, Armenia and the OSCE Secretariat began negotiating a new framework of cooperation. The "Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia–European Union Relations
Armenia and the European Union have maintained positive relations over the years. Both parties are connected through the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which was signed in 2017. Armenian former Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan expressed confidence that the new partnership agreement would "open a new page" in EU-Armenia relations. While, the former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini concluded in June 2019, that Armenia-EU relations are on an “excellent” level. Armenia-EU relations The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) (signed in 1996 and in force until February 2021) served as the legal framework for EU-Armenia bilateral relations. Since 2004, Armenia and the other South Caucasus states have been part of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). An ENP Action Plan for Armenia was published on 2 March 2005, "highlighting areas in which bilateral cooperation could feasibly and valuabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Zakharova
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova (russian: Мария Владимировна Захарова; born 24 December 1975) is the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) since 2015. She has a degree of Candidate in Historical Sciences, the Russian equivalent of a PhD. Early life and education Zakharova was born to a family of diplomats on 24 december 1975. Her father, Vladimir Zakharov, moved the family to Beijing in 1981 when he was appointed to the Soviet embassy there. The family left Beijing for Moscow in 1993, two years after the Soviet Union had collapsed. Her mother, Irina Zakharova, is an art historian who has worked at Moscow's Pushkin Museum. In 1998, Maria Zakharova graduated from the Faculty of International Journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in the field of orientalism and journalism. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Mission To The Organization For Security And Cooperation In Europe
The United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe represents the United States government in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Currently, Michael R. Carpenter represents the United States at the OSCE and holds the title of ambassador. The United States Mission to the OSCE is composed of representatives of the Department of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Defense Department, and of the joint Congressional/Executive Branch Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission. The Mission was established in 1975, shortly after the OSCE was created by the Helsinki Accords. The Mission represents the United States in the Permanent Council of the OSCE, the Organization's principal policy-making body, as well as in the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC). The Mission also monitors implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty in the J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Colonna
Catherine Colonna ( (born 16 April 1956) is a French diplomat and politician who serves as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since 20 May 2022. Colonna previously served as Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom (2019–2022), Ambassador of France to Italy (2014–2017), Permanent Representative to OECD (2017–2019) and Permanent Representative to UNESCO (2008–2010). Family and education Born at Tours, Colonna is the daughter of a farmer of Corsican origin. After obtaining a master's degree in public law at the Université François-Rabelais of Tours, she pursued her studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (public service) then École nationale d'administration (ENA) in the class of 1983 (Promotion Solidarité). Career in the diplomatic service In 1983, Colonna entered diplomatic service being appointed to the Embassy of France in the United States, first in the political department, then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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