The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
The OSCE plays an important role in the promotion of Securirty, Human Rights, Democracy and Conflict Prevention in the fifty five Participating States. Regular consultations take place within the OSCE in Vienna in the field of Human Rights, Democracy, Minority Rights aswell as Security- and disarmement. The OSCE also engages itself actively in a comprehensive election monitoring in the participating states. All countries in Europe are Participating States in the OSCE aswell as the United States of America, Canada, Kazastan, Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The OSCE plays an important role in securing stability and consolidating democracy with its contribution in the above fields as well as with it´s eighteen Field Missions in the Participating States.
Iceland´s priorities within the OSCE are mainly in the field of Protection of Human Rights, combatting Trafficking in Human Beings and combatting Terrorism.
Ambassador Sveinn Björnsson presented Jan Kubis, former Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with his letter of credentials as a Permanent Representative of Iceland to the OSCE on the 17th of August 2004.
