Opening session of OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC)
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- Date: 17.01.2018
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The first opening session of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) took place today under the leadership of the Slovak Republic in Viennaʼs Hofburg. Having taken over the FSC Chairmanship Insignia from the Republic of Serbia in December 2017, Slovakia assumed its historically first FSC Chairmanship of this institution.
The first session under the SVK FSC Chairmanship was opened by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Lukáš Parízek. In his opening remarks, he introduced the SVK FSC Chairmanship Programme to OSCE participating States, which Slovakia will press ahead with within the Forum, to a full extent, in the first trimester of 2018.
As part of the programme, Slovakia seeks to follow up on the work done thus far on upgradingthe 2011 Vienna Document (VD11), which outlines the OSCE’s key set of confidence and security-building measures. The focus will be on reinforcing mutual dialogue, raising mutual confidence, and strengthening the political will to step up to current security challenges, with particular emphasis on todayʼs volatile security situation in the eastern section of Ukraine. The presented programme, in the drafting of which the SVK MOD had been closely involved, was met with a highly positive response from OSCE participating States. Especially for its topicality, conceptuality, ambition, as well as its realistic feasibility in practice. The SVK MOD follows through on its commitments vis-à-vis the OSCE, which arise for the Slovak Republic out of the politically and legally binding international documents on arms control, disarmament and confidence and security-building measures.
Overall, six FSC sessions will take place over the period of Slovakiaʼs Chairmanship of the OSCE, focusing on the threats stemming from the use of small arms and light weapons (SALW); the risks posed by the presence of stockpiles of conventional ammunition (SCA); the transparency and reliability of military information with the intent of building mutual confidence; and the international efforts to counter the illicit spread of weapons of mass destruction. Elaborated upon by the SVK MOD, the issue of regional synergies in military affairs will be debated on 7 March 2018.
The concluding session under the Slovak FSC Chairmanship is scheduled for 14 March 2018, whereas it will officially last until the Easter recess in April 2018.
The first session under the SVK FSC Chairmanship was opened by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Lukáš Parízek. In his opening remarks, he introduced the SVK FSC Chairmanship Programme to OSCE participating States, which Slovakia will press ahead with within the Forum, to a full extent, in the first trimester of 2018.
As part of the programme, Slovakia seeks to follow up on the work done thus far on upgradingthe 2011 Vienna Document (VD11), which outlines the OSCE’s key set of confidence and security-building measures. The focus will be on reinforcing mutual dialogue, raising mutual confidence, and strengthening the political will to step up to current security challenges, with particular emphasis on todayʼs volatile security situation in the eastern section of Ukraine. The presented programme, in the drafting of which the SVK MOD had been closely involved, was met with a highly positive response from OSCE participating States. Especially for its topicality, conceptuality, ambition, as well as its realistic feasibility in practice. The SVK MOD follows through on its commitments vis-à-vis the OSCE, which arise for the Slovak Republic out of the politically and legally binding international documents on arms control, disarmament and confidence and security-building measures.
Overall, six FSC sessions will take place over the period of Slovakiaʼs Chairmanship of the OSCE, focusing on the threats stemming from the use of small arms and light weapons (SALW); the risks posed by the presence of stockpiles of conventional ammunition (SCA); the transparency and reliability of military information with the intent of building mutual confidence; and the international efforts to counter the illicit spread of weapons of mass destruction. Elaborated upon by the SVK MOD, the issue of regional synergies in military affairs will be debated on 7 March 2018.
The concluding session under the Slovak FSC Chairmanship is scheduled for 14 March 2018, whereas it will officially last until the Easter recess in April 2018.
