The 18th Meeting of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum was put under the headline of “Promoting good governance at border crossings, improving the security of land transportation and facilitating international transport by road and rail in the OSCE region”. The Meeting’s second and main part was conducted again in its traditional place – the Czernin Palace in Prague, on 24 – 26 May 2010. It was a positive observation that the Forum’s organizers at the Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities did obviously pay special attention to directing key speakers’ contributions and subsequent discussions towards the security dimension of the subject. The Forum took place against the background of continuing conceptual discussions between the national delegations to the OSCE in Vienna on the future orientation of the economic and environmental dimension. A respective decision of the same title (MC.DEC/4/09) had been adopted at the Athens Ministerial Council in December 2009.

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