On 6 – 8 November 2012, CORE conducted its fifth OSCE-related training course, this time in Kyiv. The course was designed to prepare officials of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the forthcoming Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship in 2013. The preceding four training courses were conducted for groups of diplomats from Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Ireland – the OSCE Chairmanships between 2010 and 2012.
The general intention of the three-day event was to train the personnel of the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship Task Force. It aimed at a better understanding of how to build consensus among participating States and was meant to explain specifics of the Organization’s structures and the OSCE’s strategic and daily management, as well as to communicate expertise in formal and informal OSCE decision-making and implementation procedures.
The training addressed a group of 17 trainees and was a collective effort of nine institutions and offices. It was conducted jointly by experts from the Irish 2012 OSCE Chairmanship, ODIHR, the Office of the OSCE Secretary General, the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and CORE. The training was sponsored and encouraged politically by the German Federal Foreign Office, supported logistically by the German Embassy in Kyiv and hosted by the Ukrainian MFA in cooperation with the Ukrainian Diplomatic Academy.
Along with senior staff members of the OSCE and the Irish Chairmanship, lecturers included CORE researchers Frank Evers, Anna Kreikemeyer and Wolfgang Zellner. Altogether, a team of nine CORE colleagues prepared the training. The training was personally supported, not least, by Ambassador Eoin O'Leary of the Irish 2012 Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier, and the Director of the ODIHR, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič.
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