IDEAS: OSCE Secretary
General Welcomes Track II Initiative
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In a recent statement at the sidelines of the 18th OSCE
Ministerial Council, the Organization's Secretary General,
Ambassador Lamberto Zannier welcomed a multi-country think
tank initiative for the development of a "Euro-Atlantic
and Eurasian Security Community". "I look forward
to the results of this joint project. I am confident that
its findings and recommendations will provide a fresh impetus
for
dialogue and for action", Zannier stated. At the same
time the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Poland and
Russia in a joint communiqué expressed their support
for the initiative.
The Initiative - under the name of IDEAS - aims at conceptualizing
a "free, democratic, common and indivisible Euro-Atlantic
and Eurasian security community stretching from Vancouver
to Vladivostok", as envisioned by the OSCE participating
States in their 2010 Astana Commemorative Declaration. Jointly
carried out by the
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), the
Centre for OSCE Research (CORE), the Polish Institute of
International Affairs (PISM) and the Moscow State Institute
of International Relations (University) of the MFA of Russia
(MGIMO), CORE on behalf of IFSH will significantly shape
the initiative's profile. In a first step CORE together
with the Federal Foreign Office will conduct a workshop
in February 2012 in
Berlin. Followed by similar events in Paris, Warsaw and
Moscow representatives of the four institutes will jointly
draft a final report summarizing the key findings and suggestions
as brought forward during discussions. The final report
will be resented to the OSCE at the end of 2012.
