On March 11, 2015, RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich was in Stockholm to take part in a seminar “The OSCE’s Role in Consolidating European Security” held within the Helsinki+40 project by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The event was attended by Cochairman of “Helsinki+40” project Joao Soares, OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver, UI Director Mats Karllson and SIPRI Chairman Emeritus Rolf Ekeus. The participants discussed ways to strengthen and reform the OSCE, integrated approach to European security and future OSCE PA role with the focus on Ukraine crisis and prospects for relationship between Europe and Russia.
On March 11, 2015, RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich was in Stockholm to take part in a seminar “The OSCE’s Role in Consolidating European Security” held within the Helsinki+40 project by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The event was attended by Cochairman of “Helsinki+40” project Joao Soares, OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver, UI Director Mats Karllson and SIPRI Chairman Emeritus Rolf Ekeus.
The participants discussed ways to strengthen and reform the OSCE, integrated approach to European security and future OSCE PA role with the focus on Ukraine crisis and prospects for relationship between Europe and Russia.
Opinions have been voiced that time has come to change the key and regard Russia as part of Europe rather than plunge into confrontation, the sanctions being vestiges of the past and hardly effective as foreign policy tools since they damage both Russia and European countries. Many said that the OSCE seems the least efficient organization in the Ukraine context.
It was the third Helsinki+40 seminar, the first one held by RIAC in Moscow in September 2014 and the second by the Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington in November 2014. The next gathering will take place in Belgrade next May.
Within the framework of this project RIAC organizes an essay contest for young experts.
Helsinki +40 seminar #3 - UI/Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, 11 March 2015
