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Secretary General of Co-operation Council of Turkic Speaking States addresses OSCE Permanent Council

20 December 2012
The Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, Halil Akıncı, addressing the OSCE's Permanent Council at the Hofburg in Vienna, 20 December 2012. (OSCE/Curtis Budden) Photo details

The Secretary General of the Co-operation Council of Turkic Speaking States, Halil Akıncı, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 20 December 2012 in Vienna.

He spoke about the interaction between the Co-operation Council and the OSCE, stressing the need to step up joint work on a range of issues creating synergies while avoiding overlaps, and mentioned conflict resolution efforts in the OSCE region.

Co-operation Council of Turkic Speaking States is a regional intergovernmental organization set up in 2009; its members are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, all of them are participating States of the OSCE.

The Permanent Council is one of the OSCE's main regular decision-making bodies. It convenes weekly in Vienna to discuss developments in the OSCE area and to make decisions.