New OSCE chairperson to outline priorities for 2010

The new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, will outline Kazakhstan`s priorities for the Organization in 2010 in a speech to be delivered on Thursday in Vienna, according to the OSCE`s website.

Saudabayev will speak at a session of the Permanent Council, one of the Organization`s main regular decision-making bodies.

Expected highlights of the address include giving new impetus to OSCE efforts to stabilize the situation in areas of protracted conflicts, and to seek their resolution; developing international transport corridors; and promoting tolerance and mutual understanding.

Before the speech, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will address the Permanent Council in a videotaped speech.

Kazakhstan took over the one-year Chairmanship of the Organization on 1 January, succeeding Greece. Lithuania will follow in 2011.

/AzerTac/