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10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations

When

15 July 2018, 13:00 - 16 July 2018, 17:30

Where

Udine, Italy

Organized by

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Friuli Venezia Giulia regional authorities and the municipality of Udine, with the support of Italy's 2018 OSCE Chairmanship

Participants at the conference marking the 10th Anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner’s Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations discuss new challenges and lessons learned, Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Henrik Villadsen, HCNM Director; Vinicio Mati, Co-ordinator of the 2018 OSCE Italian Chairmanship, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Massimiliano Fedriga, President of the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia; Pietro Fontanini, Mayor of Udine; Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities at the conference “The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: new challenges and lessons learned”, Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Participants of the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Ivana Antić, Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia; Ferenc Kalmár, Ministerial Commissioner responsible for Developping Neighborhood policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary; Batir Tursunov, Deputy Director at the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Tove Malloy, Director, European Centre for Minority Issues; Francesco Palermo, Director at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of the EURAC Research Bolzano/Bozen and Professor at the University of Verona; at the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Natacha Andonovski-Carter, Head of Section/Senior Adviser at the HCNM; Francesco Palermo, Director at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of the EURAC Research Bolzano/Bozen and Professor at the University of Verona; Emma Lantschner, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz; Zsuzsa Csergő, Associate Professor and Head of Political Studies at the Queen’s University Canada; Bob Deen, Head of Section/Senior Adviser at the HCNM; Natalie Sabanadze, Ambassador of Georgia to Belgium and Luxembourg and Head of Mission to the EU; at the conference “The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: new challenges and lessons learned”, Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Bob Deen, Head of Section / Senior Adviser at the HCNM; George Tsereteli, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; Artemis Dralo, Deputy Minister at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania; Simona Granata-Menghini, Deputy-Secretary at the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission); Alexei Avtonomov, Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Petra Roter, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana; at the conference “The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: new challenges and lessons learned”, Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Participants of the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Participants of the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, at the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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Participants of the conference "The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New challenges and lessons learned", Udine, Italy, 16 July 2018.

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The 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: New Challenges and Lessons Learned

The year 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations.

To celebrate this milestone, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities invited representatives of OSCE participating States, international organizations, experts and academics to a two-day event in Udine, Italy, organized together with Italy’s 2018 OSCE Chairmanship.

The anniversary event allowed for reflection on how States can effectively address political and legal concerns arising from national minorities in inter-State relations.

A closed expert round table on Sunday, 15 July brought together prominent scholars to consider major developments in the field.

A full-day conference followed on Monday, 16 July in which participants engaged in two high-level panels to discuss current challenges, lessons learned and good practices.

Launched in 2008, the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations emphasize the importance of ensuring good neighbourly relations and reducing tensions involving national minorities within and across national boundaries.

For more information about the conference read the news release, event programme and other resources available below.