On 19-20 October 2012, this year’s OSCE Focus Conference convened some 30 persons, OCSE ambassadors, representatives from OSCE institutions and researchers, to discuss a broad range of issues from the prospects of the forthcoming 2012 Dublin Ministerial Council meeting to transnational threats, the Arab Spring, conventional arms control and human dimension meetings. The conference, co-organized by DCAF and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, also served as a test site for a range of ideas for the forthcoming 2014 Swiss OSCE Chairmanship – and as always some ideas seemed to fly while others failed to gain traction. The Head of CORE, Wolfgang Zellner, gave a presentation on the reform of the modalities of human dimension events and commented on another presentation on conventional arms control in Europe.
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