Buch(gedruckt) World Affairs Online2011

The OSCE Summit in Astana: expectations and results

In: Working Paper, 23

Evers, Frank; Zentrum für OSZE-Forschung

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Abstract

The OSCE Summit in Astana in December 2010 was a novelty in several respects. It was the first OSCE Summit to be held for eleven years and the first to take place in a Central Asian state or a CIS member state. This paper examines what the most important OSCE actors expected from the Astana Summit, and analyses their assessment of the Summit's mixed results. On the one hand the OSCE States agreed on a visionary objective that goes beyond any declaration that had previously been negotiated within the CSCE/OSCE framework by formulating the goal of a "Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community". On the other hand the basic document of the conference, the Astana Framework for Action failed to win approval. (IFSH/Pll)