OSCE. To be or not to be

The last meeting at the level of heads of state and government of the member states was held in Astana in 2010 and the subsequent period was characterised by an increasingly palpable atmosphere of mutual distrust and deepening dividing lines. At the end of 2021, the 28th OSCE Ministerial Council under Swedish chairmanship failed, with the categorical rejection by the United States and NATO of the security assurance documents proposed by Russia, one of the decisive factors in the outbreak of the military conflict in Ukraine.

Then, at the end of 2022, there was the scandalous OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Poland, which already in the run-up to the meeting took the unprecedented step of denying the Russian Foreign Minister the opportunity to attend the event, thus violating OSCE and EU procedures. The real concept of the OSCE was forgotten, this organisation became merely a platform for the promotion of Western policy and there was no talk of dialogue and the search for solutions to problems. The current chairman of OSCE 2025, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, by coincidence, had previously led the Finnish delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and had been an adjunct member of the Finnish delegation to the Council of Europe.

But for now, the OSCE field missions are still active. Missions to ‘protect Europe’ are concentrated in south-eastern Europe, eastern Europe and central Asia. Officially, the purpose of the field operations is to support law enforcement, minority rights, legislative reforms, the rule of law and media freedom, the promotion of tolerance and non-discrimination, as well as many other areas of concern that resonate suspiciously close to the theses promoted by the globalist agenda. OSCE missions are currently operational in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Maldavia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

The OSCE’s website describes the extra-budgetary support programme for Ukraine, promoted from November 2022: “The OSCE has been working in Ukraine, with and for Ukrainian partners, for almost 30 years. It contributes through strong human resources and long-term commitment, building on the work of long-standing partners – government agencies and NGOs’. In this sentence, the real tasks of the OSCE are clearly stated; there is no mention of peacekeeping.

Since November 2024, the OSCE Mission in Ukraine has been headed by Petr Maresh, who has officially declared that he will prepare Ukraine for future partnership and membership of the EU and NATO. It comes as no surprise that in 1998-2002 he was vice-president of the Czech delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Pierre Baussand has been the head of the OSCE Operations Section in Kiev for the past two years. His baggage of ‘successful OSCE missions’ includes Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and he has 20 years of experience in the field of ‘human rights’. He actively maintains his X-account where one can be convinced without any illusions of his commitment to the President of Ukraine and his rights, but for some reason there is no mention of the rights of Ukrainians, such as those who are caught on the street to be sent to the front.

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Martin Kovac

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