The OSCE and the Netherlands' Chairmanship. High Expectations, Realistic Goals
The OSCE and the Netherlands' Chairmanship. High Expectations, Realistic Goals
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欧安组织和荷兰担任主席。
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2003
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E. Bakker
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H. W. Bomert;E. Bakker
On December 1-2, 2003, the Ministerial Council of the 55 participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) took place in Maastricht – the first meeting of this kind on Dutch soil. The Chairman of the Ministerial Council was Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, performing his last act as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Although it had already been announced in September 2003 that De Hoop Scheffer would lead NATO as of January 1, 2004 (and his successor at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague was named soon afterwards), the acting Minister preferred to stay on as Chairman of the OSCE until after the meeting in Maastricht. By taking this line of action, the Minister and the Dutch government underlined the importance that they attach to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in general and to the Netherlands’ Chairmanship in particular.