Moratinos: ‘Project Europe is still unfinished’

Spain assumed the Chairmanship of the OSCE in January 2007.

The OSCE is still the forum for raising key questions and issues concerning the future of Europe, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos said in his first address to the Permanent Council in Vienna as Chairman-in-Office. “We are aware that times are not
easy, but for this very reason, our Organization is so necessary,” he said. He pledged to strengthen the OSCE’s role as a forum for dialogue and co-operation, along with other priorities of the Chairmanship: the fight against terrorism, protecting the environment and encouraging participation in pluralistic societies.