One of the OSCE's key tasks - conflict resolution - is the focus of the OSCE Security Day to be held at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna on Monday, 16 September, says the OSCE Website.
Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk of Ukraine, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, and Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the OSCE, will open the meeting. Dr. I. William Zartman, Professor Emeritus at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a keynote speech.
This event is the fourth OSCE Security Day held this year. It will bring together experts from a range of different countries and specializations to look at OSCE's toolbox on conflict resolution and explore new ideas on how the OSCE can better contribute to bringing about sustainable solutions to conflicts in its region. The event will look in particular at the role of regional and multilateral organizations and ways to sustain and consolidate peace in the aftermath of violent conflict.
Media representatives are invited to attend the opening and first sessions of the event on Monday, 16 September 2013, from 9:00 to 11:15 in the Neuer Saal of the Hofburg Congress Centre.-0-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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