Pictures from the field
A photograph album from the OSCE Mission to Georgia between 2003 and 2009 PICTURES FROM THE FIELD A short collection of photographs capturing a few moments of the Mission’s work between 2003 and 2009 About the OSCE Mission to Georgia The main tasks of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, which have gradually increased since its inception in late 1992, have been the following:
Politico-military dimension of security ammunition, and also for neutralizing any dangerous on supporting small- and medium-size enterprise chemicals left on former Russian bases in Georgia. development, assisting the Georgian Government in Promoting peaceful conflict resolution its efforts to improve economic and environmental Assisting police reform and enhancing anti- legislation, and facilitating OSCE regional economic The Mission promoted negotiations between the terrorism capacities and environmental activities. conflicting parties in the zone of the Georgian- Ossetian conflict (1992), and supported the UN-led The Mission supported the Georgian law enforcement Co-operation with other international organizations peace process in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz structures in combating terrorism and organized crime. conflict (1993). It was a participant in the Joint Control Assistance was given with police reform, in areas such The Mission co-operated closely with a range of Commission (co-chaired by the Georgian, Russian as human resource management, community policing, international organizations and institutions on a number Federation, North Ossetian and South Ossetian sides), and the Police Academy. of issues relevant to the Mission mandate. Three and monitored the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) relationships stand out: those with the United Nations, in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Strengthening border management capacities the European Commission and the Council of Europe. and security Monitoring adherence to the Sochi Ceasefire Discontinuation, pending negotiation on an OSCE Agreement of 1992, and the activity of the JPKF Through an extra-budgetary programme, the Mission presence (the situation at the time this publication (comprising a battallion each of Georgian, North set out to promote inter-agency co-ordination and went to print in early June 2009) Ossetian and Russian personnel under Russian international co-operation on border issues. The command) has also been an important focus for the Mission also designed and ran foundation programmes On 31 December 2008 the OSCE Permanent Council Mission. to address the short- and medium-term needs of the failed to reach consensus on the mandate renewal Georgian Border Police, offering training in specialized in the wake of the August conflict. Twenty unarmed The Mission led an initiative funded by international skills and management for junior officers and senior military monitoring officers, who were deployed to the donors to set up projects for economic and management alike. The Mission had previously run a Mission to Georgia by a Permanent Council decision infrastructure rehabilitation in the conflict zone. Other monitoring operation on 280 kilometres of mandated on 19 August 2008, continue to operate, monitoring grass-roots projects helped bring communities border between Georgia and the Russian Federation. the area adjacent to South Ossetia under a mandate together and increase the capacity of the NGO sector. that expires on 30 June 2009. Human dimension of security After fighting broke out in August 2008, the Mission focused on the urgent need for stabilization and an The Mission helped the Georgian Government in its easing of the humanitarian crisis; to this end, 20 new efforts to fulfill its OSCE commitments on human rights, monitoring officers were rapidly deployed according to the rule of law and democratization. It also monitored the will of the OSCE participating States. The Mission and supported the protection of human rights and supports the Geneva discussions co-chaired by the fundamental freedoms in Georgia, including in South EU, the UN and the OSCE, which aim to bring stability Ossetia and Abkhazia, and promoted the building of to the region, implementing the joint incident prevention civil-society and democratic institutions. mechanisms agreed at the discussions. Economic and environmental dimension of security Destruction of surplus stockpiles The Mission regularly monitored, analysed and reported Through OSCE donor States, the Mission funded a on developments in the areas of the economy, energy programme for dismantling stockpiles of obsolete and the environment. Specifically, the Mission focused Promoting Peaceful Conflict Resolution .............................................................................. 6 Other Politico-Military Aspects of Security ......................................................................... 34 Human Dimension of Security........................................................................................... 54 Economic & Environmental Dimension of Security ............................................................ 64 Visits to the Mission .......................................................................................................... 70 Promoting Peaceful Conflict Resolution
6 Monitoring the security On the Georgian Bypass Road, east of the ‘Pauk’ position, January 2007 situation on the ground 7 Monitoring patrols with the Joint Peacekeeping Forces
A joint monitoring team at the JPKF checkpoint on the Transcaucasian Highway (TRANSCAM) between Kekhvi and Itrapisi,17 March 2005
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1. Monitoring one of the causes of the water crisis in the zone of conflict in summer 2007
4. With the JPKF investigating an incident
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1. The Mission’s Chief Monitoring Officer Steve Young (centre right) briefs Head of Mission Ambassador Roy Reeve (centre left) July 2006, in zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict
3. One of the Mission’s monitors compiling a report in the OSCE Tskhinvali Field Office, June 2005
4. Monitoring defensive positions in the zone of conflict, Autumn 2006 OSCE / David Khizanishvili
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1. Monitoring JPKF RF sappers starting an engineer reconnaissance for mines along the Georgian bypass road
5. Joint monitoring to investigate a night time cease-fire violation
8. Russian Officer handover, 10 February 2006
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1. Challenging conditions, Winter 2006
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1. A newly deployed monitor at Russian checkpoint near Ali, 2
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OSCE / David Khizanishvili September 2008. The original group of 8 monitors was boosted after the OSCE participating States agreed to increase their number by 20 on 19 August 2008
6. Head of Mission, Ambassador Hakala (left) is briefed in the field, 4 November 2008
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OSCE / David Khizanishvili 13 The OSCE monitors the withdrawal of the Russian Armed Forces, 8 October 2008
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3. Monitoring the withrawal of Russian Armed Forces on 8 October 2008 at Ergneti, 2 Km south of Tskhinvali
4. At Natsreti dismantled Russian observation post, 8 October 2008
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1. The Mission’s Emmanuel Anquetil 4. The Head of Mission, Ambassador 8. Representing the OSCE, Head of and Veselin Nikolaev (standing, Roy Reeve (centre left) and First Mission, Ambassador Roy Reeve (right) centre back) watch the Joint Control Counselor of the European Commission with non-resident Belgian Ambassador Commission (JCC) Co-Chairmen sign Delegation in Georgia, Jacques to Georgia Danielle del Marmol (left) a Memorandum of Understanding on a Vantomme (centre right) sign the MoU of the OSCE Belgian Chairmanship, European Commission-funded economic for the Euro 2.5 Million programme and the Mission’s Manana Kobiashvili rehabilitation programme in the zone (centre) translating, 5 November 2006
The political process of the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict. The signing concluded the meeting in the OSCE’s Tskhinvali Field Office, 31 January 2004 5. Malkhaz Kakabadze (right) Georgian Minister for Special Affairs signing the memorandum
7. A JCC Meeting in Tskhinvali, 5 9. Giorgi Volski (left) representing the Georgian side at a JCC meeting in Moscow, 25 October 2005
2. Boris Chochiev, Co-Chairman of November 2006. As all JCC meetings, the JCC for the South Ossetian Side this one was facilitated by the OSCE (centre) signs Mission, and co-chaired by the Sides: the Georgian, South Ossetian, 3. The North Ossetian and Russian North Ossetian and Russian Sides. Sides signing Representatives of the European Commission and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also participated
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2. Merab Antadze representing the Georgian Side (left) and Naveed Hussein of the UNHCR, at a Steering Committee meeting in Tskhinvali, 6 October 2006
3. The first Steering Committee for the OSCE-led Euro 8 million donor-funded Economic rehabilitation, 6 October 2006. Deputy Head Veselin Nikolaev (centre) and Gantcho Ganchev (right)
4. German Ambassador to Georgia, Patricia Flor addresses the meeting. The 21 donors funding the OSCE’s Euro 8 million Economic Rehabilitation programme are represented at the OSCE / Martha Freeman
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5. A group of donors and representatives of the Georgian and South Ossetian sides stop for lunch just north of the zone of conflct during their tour of earmarked projects for rehabiliation, Java 31 May 2006
6. JCC Deputy Co-Chairman for the South Ossetian side Leonid Tibilov
7. Deputy Co-Chairman for the Georgian side Ruslan Abashidze (left)
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3. Robin Liddell, First Counselor of the European Commission’s Delegation to Georgia
6. Representatives of the North and South Ossetian sides
8. Deputy Chief of the US Mission to Georgia Mark Perry (right) signing a
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19 Joint Control Commission meeting in the Mission’s Tbilisi Headquarters, October 2007
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1. Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala (right) at the Mission Headquarters in Tbilisi, with South Ossetian representative Boris Chochiev, Georgian representative Dimitri Manjavidze and Russian Special Envoy Yuri Popov, (left to right), 23 October 2007
2. From left to right, Major-General Marat Kulakhmetov, chief of the Russian battalion and overall Commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF), the OSCE Mission’s Chief Military Monitor Stephen Young and Commander of the Georgian battalion to the JPKF, Brigadier General Mamuka Kurashvili
3. The Head of Mission welcomes Georgian State Minister on Reintegration Issues, David Bakradze
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3. The EC’s Robin Liddell with Ruslan Abashidze of the Georgian side
5. The Mission’s support staff for the meeting include information technology specialist Sasha Lutsenko (right)
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1. The Mission’s Verena Blickwede goes through notes with a donor
2. The donors and sides go through the implementation details of rehabilitation projects in the basement meeting room of the OSCE Tskhinvali Economic Rehabilitation Office, 19 October 2007
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23 All photographs on this page OSCE / Martha Freeman The EC-funded €2.5million Rehabilitation Programme
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1. Georgian and Ossetian engineers at an irrigation water pump station for renovation works as part of an EC- funded economic rehabilitation project which pre-dated the ERP, Kekhvi, 16 March 2005
2. A Georgian company of engineers is repairing the domestic gas supply pipe in a street in Tskhinvali, March 2005
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24 The donor-funded €8 million Economic Rehabilitation Programme for the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and adjacent areas (ERP)
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1. Farmers belonging to the ERP farmers’ agricultural association use machinery to transplant tomato seedlings, Sagolasheni near Gori, 2 July 2008
2. The Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala tastes the water supplied by the ERP to the village of Ksuisi, during a donors’ visit to the site, 12 December 2007
3. A new beekeeper sets up his hives and bee families, after being trained and supported by the ERP, June 2008
4. The ERP’s Kirk Ramer with farmers in Breti, with their new crop of quality strain tomatoes grown from seed provided b the ERP, September 2008
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1. The ERP’s Verena Blickwede donating agricultural machinery and equipment to eight ERP agricultural associations in the Shida Kartli area, Breti, 16 April 2009
3. An Ossetian farmer and the ERP’s Eduard Shermandini (left) discussing his new ERP crop of high-yield alfalfa, west of Tskhinvali, July 2008
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2. Domba, one of the first calves to be born from the ERP artificial insemination project to enrich the productivity and quality of indigenous stock, Breti, January 2009
27 OSCE / David Khizanishvili Head of the Tskhinvali Field Office Grzegorz Michalski talking to students at the University in Tskhinvali, June 2008
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28 OSCE / Agnes Montanari Improving the context on the ground with civil society development
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2. Students at an award ceremony for best essay in English for an OSCE- supported NGO-run English language course, 31 October 2006
3. Supporting civil society development: human rights NGO members at a certificate ceremony for OSCE-supported projects, Tskhivnali, 6 August 2006
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4. The Mission’s Democratization Officer Isabel Covic monitoring an OSCE Small Grants project for English language training for Georgian and Ossetian children in Avenvi, South west of Tskhinvali, 8 September 2006 OSCE
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1 – 4. Members of the Mission visit the beneficiaries of the OSCE’s Small Grants Programme, which put special emphasis on new NGOs and intiatives working for vulnerable groups
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5. An OSCE-supported arts centre for vulnerable children, Tskhinvali, autumn 2006
6. A new kindergarten playground built by an NGO which won funding from the OSCE’s Small Grants Programme, Tskhinvali, November 2006
8. A grant for physical training for children with learning difficulties, Tskhinvali, November 2006
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31 The Programme for Professional and Responsible Journalism
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1. The Mission’s photographer David Khizanishvili during part of an OSCE media programme to promote confidence and awareness of economic rehabilitation successes for Georgian and Ossetian communities, Tskhinvali University, June 2008
3 – 5. The first joint Georgian and Ossetian film in the zone of conflict: an OSCE project for a film on economic rehabilitation, 20 December 2006
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2. The Mission’s Magdalena Frichova and Martha Freeman (first and second left) and Thomson Foundation’s Russell Isaac (right) during a discussion between Georgian and Ossetian journalists, Tskhinvali July 2005
3. The Mission Field Office’s Nana Tedeeva with the professional conflict reporting study visit to Great Britain and Northern Ireland, December 2005
4. Goga Khaindrava and Boris Chochiev (first and second right), Co-Chairmen of the Joint Control Commission for the Georgian and South Ossetian Sides attend the certificate ceremony for a conflict reporting training with Head of Mission Ambassador Reeve (third left), and Deputy Head of the British Embassy in Tbilisi (back, fourth left), at the Tskhinvali Field Office, 14 July 2005
5. Georgian and Ossetian journalists in Northern Ireland for an OSCE programme on responsible journalism and conflict transformation, December 2005
6. The journalists with the Mission’s Spokesperson Martha Freeman (left) visiting a Belfast boxing trainer who had trained catholic and protestant sportspeople together, December 2005
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The OSCE’s Border Monitoring the Russian Federation’s then hiked to their observation Operation (BMO), from 1999 to Chechnya, Dagestan and points sometimes through December 2004, was tasked Ingushetia. very challenging terrain, set up to observe and report to the camp and monitored day and Organization all movements From several small OSCE bases night, so that all possible border on the ground or in air over a in the mountains the teams crossing points in that part of mandated stretch of border of unarmed OSCE monitors, the Caucasus Mountains were between Georgia and the and their detachment of continually covered. Russian Federation. At full accompanying border guards, expansion of the Operation, that were deployed near vantage stretch was 280 Km bordering points by helicopter. They
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5. A sign post made at the Omalo base illustrating the diversity of participating States represented in the BMO
39 The Training Assistance & Capacity Building 1 Programmes for 5 2 4 6 the Georgian 3 Border Police 1. TAP manager Rory McCorley watching a demonstration exercise of some of the border police’s newly acquired skills, July 2005
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Building programme (2006-2007) for the Georgian Border police aimed at passing on the OSCE’s specialist knowledge of successfully monitoring the border in the Caucasus mountains. The different elements of the programmes were tailor- made for a range of border OSCE / Steven Weinberg
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4. Head of Mission Ambassador Roy Reeve presents certificates to the first group of 77 Georgian border police to be TAP trained, Kazbegi, 11 July 2005
5. Trainers Peter Kitzberger (right), and Czeslaw Bielawski (far left) about to begin a practical lesson with a group of border police, at the Lilo training centre outside Tbilisi, September 2006
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41 The Search and Rescue Programme (SART)
The SART programme (2007 to 2008) trained specialist skills for rescue in urban and mountainous areas.
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1. The OSCE trainers Thomas Kitzberger and Hrvoje Kamenjarin watching the scenario rescue exercise putting together all the trainees’ new theoretical OSCE / David Khizanishvili
and practical knowledge, in the Kojori, outside Tbilisi, November 2007
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2. Programme Manager Burgi Arlow at an OSCE TISP training course in Dzoraget, Armenia, with Georgian and Armenian border police, 10 October 2008
5. Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala presenting certificates to TISP graduates at the Police Academy in Tbilisi, 27 March 09 OSCE / David Khizanishvili
OSCE / David Khizanishvili The TISP (2008 to 2009) focused on strengthening border agencies’ ability to facilitate free and secure movement of people and trade across borders, while at the same time reducing trans-border threats; and to co-operate with counter- parts in other participating States. OSCE / David Khizanishvili
43 Dismantling of obsolete weapons from abandoned military bases
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3. Mission members visit the MoD’s Dedoplistskaro base for the delivery ceremony of a new TNT smelter for complete recycling of obsolete warheads, 12 March 2007
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3. The Mission’s Chief Monitoring Officer Zbigniew Fec at the dismantling base, Dedoplistskaro, 4 April 2004
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1. The Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala donating equipment for dismantling and recycling obsolete TNT- filled munitions to the Georgian Defence Ministry, 13 May 2009
47 Assisting police reform
48 Developing the police academy
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2. Ambassador Reeve opening the newly refurbished, equipped and stocked library of the Police Academy, Tbilisi, 30 November 2005
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49 Developing a curriculum for the police academy
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1. Cadets of the new Police Academy curriculum, which was developed with assistance from the Mission, April to November 2008
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1. Marco Kubny, the Mission’s Police Advisor, addresses a seminar on community policing in the regions, Samtskhe-Javakhekti, 21 May 2007
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OSCE / David Khizanishvili Ivane Merabishvili open the language school of the Police Academy, Tbilisi 7 March 2008
4. The first police open day at Tbilisi’s Digomi police station, 1 July 2007
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system Enhancing anti-terrorism capacity A conference for 21 middle-ranking Georgian Interior Ministry officials on effective crisis response to terrorism incidents, Tbilisi, 28 November 2005
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1. The Mission’s Bogdan Udriste at the Mission headquarters in Tbilisi delivers software to the Ministry of Interior for its new Bomb Data Centre the Mission helped set up, 15 November 2006
2-4 Theoretical and practical training delivered to the Ministry of Interior for the bomb data centre, 26 March 2008
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5-7 Hostage negotiation training and practical scenario exercise in the police academy, Tbilisi 10 May 2006
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53 Human Dimension of Security
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1. Head of Mission Roy Reeve 3. Residents of Gori at one of the with Minster of Justice Konstantine legal clinics organised by the Mission Kemularia (centre left and right) and US for eastern Georgia, 23 May 2006 Ambassador John Teft (left) at a signing
OSCE / David Khizanishvili of a Memorandum of Understanding on 4. Head of Mission Roy Reeve, a package of assistance to help Georgia and the Mission’s Rule of Law Officer establish a modernized civil registry Valerie Marchand visit the new system, 17 October 2005 penitentiary in Kutaisi, west Georgia, 26 September 2005 2. Some of the 300 penitentiary personnel in western Georgia at a three-week OSCE training programme focusing on humane treatment of detainees, security, defence and legal issues, as well as international standards and control mechanisms, September 2005
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1. Ambassador Reeve donates almost 4,000 Euros worth of modern textbooks on good governance to the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, 24 April 2005
2. Ambassador Reeve speaking at the National Democratic Institute’s presentation of an OSCE-supported analysis into voter lists, Tbilisi, 21 November 2006
3. Parliamentarians sign the new Code of Conduct which was drawn up with the support of the Mission, 12 October 2004 OSCE
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2. Delegates of the First OSCE 5. The Mission’s head of the Human South Caucasus Media Conference, Dimension Department Mark Behrendt November 2004 (left), Head of Mission Roy Reeve and Hanna Vuokko of the Office of the 3. Head of Mission Ambassador Freedom of the Media, October 2004 Roy Reeve ( left) and OSCE Representative on Freedom of the 6. The fourth South Caucasus media Media Miklos Haraszti open the conference, October 2007 OSCE / David Khizanishvili
conference on label and access to information, 26 October 2004 7. Delegates including the Turkish and Netherlands (right) Ambassadors at a 4. Ana Karlsreiter (left) and Alexander break during the fourth OSCE annual Ivanko, of the Office of the OSCE South Caucasus Media Conference, Representative on Freedom of the Tbilisi, October 2007 Media, work on the conference declaration, November 2004
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1. The Mission’s Freedom of the 3. Head of Mission Terhi Hakala, Media Officer, Zurab Khrikadze OSCE Representative on the Freedom addresses delegates at the third media of the Media Miklos Haraszti and conference, November 2006 the Mission’s Head of the Human Dimension Department Inkeri Aarnio- 2. Press Officer for the Mission Ilona Lwoff, during a coffee break from Kazaryan (left) and Ana Karlsreiter the media conference in Tbilisi, (centre) of the Office of the OSCE 13 October 2008 Representative on Freedom of the Media, before the fifth annual conference, November 2008
59 Human rights and fundamental freedoms
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1. The Mission’s Human Rights Officers, Iris Muth (centre) and George Tugushi (left) monitor OSCE organised human rights training for young people in the region of Samtskhe-Javakhekti which is home to a large communities of national minorities, 12 November 2004
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3. Tina Gewis (second right), the Mission’s Human Rights Officer and Head of Mission Ambassador Hakala at the presentation of the ODIHR’s handbook on human rights, 16 June 2008
4. Mission Democratization Officer Sven Holdar opens the conference on the legislative framework for anti- trafficking, Tbilisi 11 November 2004
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1. The Mission’s Khatuna Metreveli 4. The Head of the Mission’s Human (left) and Ia Dadunashvili (right) discuss Dimension Department Guillaume anti-trafficking campaigns with the IOM’s Siemienski (left) and Human Rights Ruth Krcmar, Batumi, 1 June 2007 Officer Iris Muth before a meeting with civil society on anti-torture, April 2005 2. The winning entry for a Mission organised public awareness campaign 5. The Mission’s Ambassador Reeve against trafficking in human beings, (right), attends a meeting with the 1 June 2007 Ombudsman and representatives of civil society, 12 April 2004 3. Human rights education in Kobuleti, western Georgia, 6 July 2005
61 OSCE / Agnes Montanari Promoting integration of national minorities
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1. Democratization Officer Lola Ansede (left) and head of the Mission’s Human Dimension Department Guillaume Siemienski (centre) holding a meeting on integration with NGO leaders in Tsalka, Kvemo Kartli, which is home to large communities of national minorities, 31 June 2007
2. The OSCE supported centre in Bolnisi, which helps promote integration, October 2007
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63 Economic & Environmental Dimension of Security
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A winning entry for an awareness campaign organised by the OSCE supported Aarhus Centre for access to environmental information, 9 July 2008
64 The Tbilisi head office of one of the main banks in Georgia.
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1. From right to left, Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala, US Ambassador to Georgia John Teft, and Prime Minister Vladimer Gurgenidze open an anti-corruption conference in Tbilisi, 25 June 2008
3.Delegates at the anti-corruption conference in Tbilisi, 25 June 2008
4. The Mission’s Economic and Environmental Officer, William Hanlon, at the Tbilisi headquarters of one of the leading banks in Georgia, 3 October 2005. The Mission worked with the Government, financial institutions, legislators and other representatives of the international community to address economic threats to regional security
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1. The Mission’s William Hanlon (right) and scientists from Tbilisi State University take river samples for the Caucasus Regional Water Surface Monitoring Project, part of the OSCE/ NATO Science for Peace Programme, Tbilisi, November 2004
2. The Mission participates in an Environment and Security (ENVSEC) initiative meeting, 8 April 2008
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1&3. Young people in western Georgia learning about protecting the environment at an OSCE supported Eco-Camp, 16 September 2005
2&4. Children during the environment- awareness sessions of the Black Sea Day, 31 October 2007
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1-2. Ambassador Terhi Hakala looking at energy saving initiatives in the OSCE supported Energy-Efficiency Promotion Bus set to tour around Georgia to raise awareness, 25 March 2009
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70 71 2003 Netherlands Chairmanship Following the parliamentary briefings, ODIHR/OSCE and PACE Officials give a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel, Tbilisi, 3 November 2003
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1. Protesters gather to hear opposition leaders speak in Freedom Square, Tbilisi, 4 November 2003
2. OSCE Chairman-in-Office Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (right) in Tbilisi, with Ambassador Roy Reeve, Head of Mission, 23 October 2003
3. Riot police stand ready in Republic Square, Tbilisi, Georgia, 5 November OSCE
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74 Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairmanship, former Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev (second right) , and Head of Mission, Ambassador Roy Reeve (fourth right), talk to reporters in Tbilisi about the situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, Tbilisi, 27 July 2004
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2005 Slovenian 1. OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel meets Georgian Speaker of Parliament Nino Burjanadze, 1 April 2005
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1. OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (left) and his Georgian counterpart Gela Bezhuashvili at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tbilisi, 22 June 2006
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3. The Chairperson-in-Office and South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity, 23 June 2006
4. Talks with the South Ossetian leader
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5. Talking to Ossetian journalists in Tskhinvali through interpretation by the Mission’s Nino Liluashvili
6. Visiting the hospital in Tskhinvali. A week earlier, the Chairperson-in- Office hosted a donors’ conference in Brussels, where some Euro 8 Million was pledged for economic rehabilitation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict
7. A briefing on security in the zone of conflict by the Commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, Major-General Marat Kulakhmetov at his headquarters in Tskhinvali, 23 June 2006
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1. The heads of 13 delegations of OSCE participating States meet Georgia’s Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili, at the beginning of their five day visit, Tbilisi, 24 July 2006
2. Head of Mission Ambassador Roy Reeve introducing the visiting delegation to State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues, Merab Antadze (left), Tbilisi July 2006
3. OSCE Permanent Council Chairman, Belgian Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe (left) with Minister of Justice, Gia Kavtaradze
4. Ambassadors Roy Reeve and Bertrand de Crombrugghe
5. Deputy Head of the OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre Monika Wohlfeld sets off with the delegation to Tskhinvali
6. A briefing in the OSCE Tskhinvali Field Office for the ambassadors, July 2006
7. Deputy State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues, Giorgi Volsky (right) in the Tskhinvali Field Office with the Georgian Ambassador to the OSCE, Viktor Dolidze
8. The delegation with the Deputy JCC Co-Chairman for the South Ossetian side, Leonid Tibilov (centre)
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3. President Mikheil Saakashvili in a meeting with OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (centre) and Head of OSCE Mission to Georgia Roy Reeve (right),15 May 2006
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81 2007 Spanish Chairmanship OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Miguel Angel Moratinos (left) at a meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Batumi on the Black Sea, 4 September 2007
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1. At lunch with Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli (left)
4. OSCE Chairperson Miguel Angel Moratinos with Chairperson of Parliament Nino Burjanadze, 4 September 2007
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1. Some of the OSCE Misson staff waiting for a visiting delegation, 20 January 2006
3. During a short break in that day’s visit programme, Josep Borrell Fontelles with the Mission’s Security Officer Oleg Bayandin and Executive Adviser Matthieu Goostein (from left to right), 11 November 2007
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2. Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, gives a press conference at the Mission’s Headquarters in Tbilisi, 22 November 2007
3. At a meeting with the Prime Minister, OSCE Chairman-in-Office’s Special Envoy Josep Borrell Fontelles (left), with the Mission’s Deputy Head Veselin Nikolaev, head of the OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre Caucasus Desk Harri Kamarainen, and the Mission’s Spokesperson Martha Freeman, 11 November 2007
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2. President Mikheil Saakashvili’s inauguration ceremony outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi on 20 January 2008. The OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Harri Kamarainen, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Heikki Talvitie, and OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut attend (second row on balcony, 4th, 5th & 6th from left respectively)
3. The Chairperson-in-Office and the Head of Mission (front left and right) at a meeting with Salome Zurabishvili (back, centre) and other opposition leaders, February 2008
4. The Chairperson on Rustaveli Avenue with Georgian Deputy State Minister of Reintergration Dmitri Manjavidze going towards the latter’s Ministry buildings, February 2008 OSCE / David Khizanishvili
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1. The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, Tbilisi 27 February 2008
2. The OSCE Chairperson with Foreign Minister David Bakradze, 27 February 2008
3. Head of Mission Ambassador Terhi Hakala (right) and Goran Lennmarker, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, at the Chairperson’s press conference in the Foreign Ministry
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2. The Head of Mission, Ambassador Terhi Hakala with the delegation of her colleagues during their visit
3. State Minster for Reintergration Issues Temur Iakobashvili (left) and the head of the visiting delegation Ambassador Turunen address the delegation in Tbilisi
4. The Mission’s Elections and Democratization Officer Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg (right) and Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association Head Giorgi Chkheidze, before the meeting with civil society representatives
5. Leader of the Paliamentary Minority Christian Democrats Giorgi Targamadze and other opposition representatives brief the Ambassadors
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1. The Mission’s Chief Security 4. OSCE Permanent Council Chairman, Officer, Laszlo Belagyi helps one of Finnish Ambassador Antti Turunen the delegation with a flak jacket, speak to the press at Kurta through Karaleti, 8 July interpretation by the Mission’s Press Officer Nino Sanikidze 2. At the headquarters of the Temporary Administrative Unit in the 5. Ossetian OSCE engineer Temuraz Georgian village of Kurta, 9 July 2008 Kulukhov (left) update the Ambassadors on the Economic Rehabiliation 3. Meeting the head of the Temporary Programme works at the village of Dzari Administrative Unit, Dimitry Sanakoev, in the north of the zone of the Georgian- in Kurta, 9 July 2008 Ossetian conflict OSCE / Martha Freeman
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1. Deputy Head of the US Mission to the OSCE. Kyle Scott (centre left) speaks with South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity (right) at Didi Gupta, the northern most point of the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, 8 July 2008
2. A late lunch in Java before heading back southwards to the zone of conflict
3. The delegation at the Roki Tunnel near the border with the Russian Federation, 8 July 2008
4. Leaving the zone of conflict to continue northwards on the Transcaucasian Highway (TRANSCAM)
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2. OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb on 10 August, Tbilisi
3. Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, Ambassador Terhi Hakala, at the arrival of OSCE Chairperson-
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4. The Head of Mission with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner
5. With Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili (right), 11 August
6. The Foreign Ministers (right) with President Saakashvili, 10 August
7. OSCE/Grzegorz Michalski 8 August. The University in Tskhinvali
8. 21 August near Gori, on the main motorway through Georgia
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1. The Mission’s Political and Military Monitoring Officers at the briefing
2. The Mission updates the Chairperson-in-Office: Head of Mission Terhi Hakala with Chief Military Monitor Stephen Young (left) and Spokesperson Martha Freeman (right), 21 August 2008
4. The Mission briefs the Chairperson- in-Office and his Finnish delegation, 21 August
5. The Mission’s Chief Security Officer Laszlo Belagyi briefing about the August conflict
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2. The Mayor of Gori shows the delegation around
3. The Chairmanship and Mission delegation beyond the village of Igoeti on the way to Gori on Georgia’s main motorway, 21 August
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3. State Minster for Reintergration Issues Temur Iakobashvil (right) in Tbilisi with (from left to right) OSCE Secretary General, Deputy Head of the OSCE Greek Delegatoin Eleni Sourani, Senior Advisor the the Secretary General Dov Lynch and the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Peter Svedberg, 11 December 2008
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2. The Chairperson-in-Office Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis in Tbilisi, with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze, 23 March 2009
3. The OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Deputy Head Pascal Heyman (second left at table) co-facilitating an Incident Prevention and Response meeting in the area affected by the August fighting, Dvani, 29 May 2009
98 All the pictures on this page OSCE / David Khizanishvili 1 2 3. The Chairperson meets the leader 3 4 5 of the Democratic Movement-United Georgia party Nino Burjanadze, and 1. The Chairperson addresses the other opposition leaders at the Mission’s Mission staff, 23 March 2009 headquarters
2. Georgian Deputy Minister of Foreign 4. The Chairperson with Temur Affairs, Alexandre Nalbandov (left), Iakobashvili State Minster for with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Reintergration Issues (right) Minister Dora Bakoyannis at Tbilisi airport, 23 March 2009 5. The OSCE Mission to Georgia headquarters
99 Mission survey Heads of the OSCE Mission to Georgia media principles; to facilitate co-operation with and 2) In relation to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict: among the parties concerned and, with their consent, 1. Halil Akinci (1992-1993) to monitor the joint peacekeeping forces established • ensure liaison with the United Nations operations 2. Aleksander Tsvetkov (1993-1994) under the Sochi Agreement of 24 June 1992, in order in Abkhazia, in order to follow events closely and 3. HansJorg Eiff (1994) to assess whether their activities are carried out in report regularly to the CSCE, inter alia with a view to 4. Dieter Boden (1995-1996) conformity with CSCE principles, in particular those facilitating the participation of the representative of 5. Michael Libal (1996-1998) mentioned in chapter II, 3 of the Decisions of the Rome the Chairman-in-Office, at the invitation of the United 6. Jean- Michel Lacombe (1999-2003) Council Meeting. Nations, to the negotiations carried out under United 7. Roy Reeve (2003-2007) Nations auspices. 8. Terhi Hakala (2007-2009) The above objectives for the expanded Mission are specified in a mandate consisting of the following 3) In relation to Georgia as a whole: 1. Basic decisions points: • promote respect for human rights and fundamental Establishment: 1) In relation to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: freedoms and assist in the development of legal and democratic institutions and processes, including • 17th CSO Meeting, 6 November 1992, Journal No. • facilitate the creation of a broader political framework, providing advice on the elaboration of a new 2, Annex 2 Modalities: in which a lasting political settlement (...) can be constitution, the implementation of a legislation on • 14th Permanent Committee Meeting, 29 March achieved on the basis of CSCE principles and citizenship and the establishment of an independent 1994, Journal 14/Revised, Annex 1 commitments; judiciary as well as monitoring elections; • Permanent Council Decision No. 115, 24 April 1996 (PC.DEC/115) • intensify discussions with all parties to the conflict, • co-ordinate these activities with the CSCE High • Permanent Council Decision No. 334, 15 December including through the organisation of round tables, Commissioner on National Minorities and the ODIHR 1999 (PC.DEC/334) in order to identify and seek to eliminate sources of and co-operate with the Council of Europe, keeping • Permanent Council Decision No. 450, 13 December tension and extend political reconciliation throughout also in touch with other international organizations 2001 (PC.DEC/450) the area of conflict. active in Georgia in this field. • Permanent Council Decision No. 523, 19 December Make recommendations regarding the early 2002 (PC.DEC/523) convening of an international conference under In addition, at the 550th Plenary Meeting on 14 April • Permanent Council Decision No. 668, 14 April 2005 CSCE auspices and with the participation of the 2005, the OSCE Permanent Council tasked the (PC.DEC/668) United Nations, aimed at the resolution of the conflict, OSCE Mission to Georgia to implement the Training including the definition of the political status of Assistance Programme (TAP) (PC.DEL/108/05/Rev.6) 2. Tasks Southern Ossetia; «in order to support the Georgian border guards in strengthening their border-management capacities and According to the original Modalities and Financial • in pursuit of the monitoring role concerning the joint capabilities». Implications approved at the 18th CSO Meeting on 13 peacekeeping forces, establish appropriate forms of December 1992, the objective of the Mission was to contact with the military commanders of the forces Also, at the 642nd Plenary Meeting on 29 June 2006, promote negotiations between the conflicting parties within the overall context of the CSCE negotiating the OSCE Permanent Council tasked the OSCE in Georgia which are aimed at reaching a peaceful efforts, gather information on the military situation, Mission to Georgia to implement the Capacity Building political settlement. investigate violations of the existing cease-fire and Programme (CBP) (PC.DEC/731) in order to support call local commanders' attention to possible political the Georgian Border Police in the strengthening of their At the 14th Meeting of the Permanent Committee implications of specific military actions; border management capabilities. on 29 March 1994, new Modalities were decided for an expanded CSCE Mission to Georgia, based • be actively involved in the reconvened Joint Control on recommendations submitted by the Personal Commission in order to facilitate co-operation with Representative of the Chairman-in-Office in accordance and among the parties concerned; with the Decisions of the Rome Council, which provided for a strengthening of the Mission. The • establish contact with local authorities and original objective was complemented by a series of representatives of the population and maintain a new objectives, namely to promote respect for human visible CSCE presence throughout the area. rights and assist in democratic institution building throughout the country; to monitor and promote free
100 3. Deployment 4. Duration • 260th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/320, 2 December 1999 The Mission started to work on 3 December 1992. The The original Modalities provided for an initial operating until 30 June 2000; MoU with the Government of Georgia was signed on period of 3 months. Subsequent prolongations of the 23 January 1993, and the MoU with the Leadership Modalities were decided at: • 286th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/355, 8 June 2000: until of the Republic of South Ossetia was agreed by an 31 December 2000; exchange of letters on 1 March 1993. • 19th CSO Meeting, 4 February 1993: until 23 August 1993; • 313th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/393, 7 December 2000: The Mission operates throughout Georgia from the until 31 December 2001; Headquarters established in Tbilisi. The Modalities of • 22nd CSO Meeting, 30 June 1993: 29 March 1994 provide for a branch office in Tskhinvali, until 23 February 1994; • 375th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/456 of 21 December which became operational on 22 April 1997. 2001: until 31 December 2002; • 10th Permanent Committee Meeting, 24 February In 1997, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed 1994: until 4 March 1994; • 427th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/522 of 19 December between the OSCE and the UN Human Rights Office 2002: until 31 December 2003; in Abkhazia, Georgia where one (at times two) OSCE • 25th CSO Meeting, 3 March 1994: officer has been working since. The MoU enables the until 30 June 1994. • 487th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/575 of 11 December OSCE Mission to Georgia to implement the relevant 2003: until 31 December 2004; parts of its mandate relating to the monitoring of the The new Modalities, decided at the 14th Permanent human rights situation in Abkhazia, while supporting Committee Meeting on 29 March 1994, were valid • 538th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/650 of 16 December the activities of the UN Human Rights Office in the until 30 September 1994. Further prolongations were 2004: until 31 December 2005; region. agreed at: • 580th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/700 of 17 November From 15 December 1999 until 31 December 2004 • 34th Permanent Committee Meeting, 22 September 2005: until 31 December 2006. the Mission was also mandated to observe and report 1994: until 31 March 1995; on movement across parts of the border between • 642nd PC Meeting, PC.DEC/766 of 14 December Georgia and the Russian Federation. While the area • 9th Permanent Council (PC), PC.DEC/18, 23 2006: until 31 December 2007. of operation of the Border Monitoring Mission (BMO) February 1995: until 30 September 1995; first only covered the border between Georgia and • 693rd PC Meeting, PC.DEC/831 of 21 December the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation, it • 35th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/70, 14 September 1995: 2007: until 31 December 2008. was extended in subsequent years also to the Ingush until 30 June 1996; and Dagestan segments of the Georgian-Russian • The modalities established for the Border Monitoring border. The BMO then operated from its Head Office • 70th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/122, 23 May 1996: until Operation were decided at: in Tbilisi, a Forward Supply Point in Telavi, eight Patrol 31 March 1997; Bases in Sno, Shatili, Girevi, Omalo, Napareuli, Kvareli, • 262nd PC Meeting, PC.DEC/334, 15 December Akhalsopeli and Kabali as well as one Permanent Patrol • 104th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/156, 6 March 1997: until 1999: until 30 April 2000. in Assa. 31 December 1997; • Subsequent prolongations of these modalities were From 18 April 2005 until 30 June 2006, the Mission • 141st PC Meeting, PC.DEC/199, 27 November decided at: carried out a Training Assistance Programme providing 1997: until 30 June 1998; training for the Georgian Border Guards at four OSCE • 279th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/346Corr1, 13 April training centres in Lilo, Kazbegi, Lagodekhi and Omalo. • 173rd PC Meeting, PC.DEC/234, 17 June 1998: until 2000: until 15 November 2000; 31 December 1998; Within the framework of the Capacity Building • 300th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/372, 21 September Programme, the Mission began carrying out training • 198th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/267, 13 November 2000: until 15 April 2001; for the Georgian Border Police on 1 July 2006. The 1998: until 30 June 1999; Capacity Building Programme was successfully • 329th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/406, 29 March 2001: completed on 30 June 2007. • 235th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/299, 17 June 1999: until until 15 November 2001; 31 December 1999; • 365th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/442/Corr.1, 2 November 2001: until 31 December 2001;
101 5. Composition 6. Decisions in 2008 and 2009 on • 427th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/523, 19 December 2002: until 30 June 2003; Originally, the authorized strength of the Mission was Military Monitors 8 members (including the Personal Representative 728th Plenary Meeting, PC.DEC/861, 19 August 2008: • 456th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/546, 17 June 2003: until of the Chairman-in-Office). Subsequent increases of Increasing the number of military monitoring officers in 31 December 2003; the number of international staff were authorized by the OSCE Mission to Georgia. the 19th Meeting of the CSO (4 February 1993), the • 488th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/586, 18 December 25th Meeting of the CSO (3 March 1994), the 14th 750th Plenary Meeting, PC.DEC/883, 12 February 2003: until 30 June 2004; Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council (29 March 2009: Extension of PC Decision No. 861 of 19 August 1994), the 18th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent 2008 until 30 June 2009. • 538th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/650 of 16 December Council (27 April 1995), the 387th Plenary Meeting of 2004: until 31 December 2005; the Permanent Council (12 April 2002) and the 522nd 7. Discontinuation pending negotiation on an Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council (6 August OSCE presence (the situation at the time of • 580th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/700, 17 November 2004). printing this publication, 7 June 2009) 2005: until 31 December 2006. The decision of the Permanent Council in December On 31 December 2008 the OSCE Permanent Council • The modalities established for the Training Assistance 1999 to establish the Border Monitoring Operation and failed to reach consensus on the mandate renewal in Programme for Georgian Border Guards were its subsequent decisions to enhance the operational the wake of the conflict in August. However, twenty decided at: efficiency and the area of operation of the BMO led unarmed military monitoring officers, who were to a phased increase of the number of international deployed to the Mission to Georgia by Permanent • 550th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/668, 14 April 2005: until personnel to 148 persons at the peak of the operation, Council decision 861 on 19 August 2008, continue 31 December 2005; all of whom left following the closure of the BMO. to operate, monitoring in the areas adjacent to South Ossetia under PC Decision No. 883 which expires on • 586th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/713, 22 December The Mission had 30 international staff working under 30 June 2009. 2005: until 30 June 2006. the Training Assistance Programme during 2005/2006.
The modalities established for the Capacity Building After the establishment of the Capacity Building Programme for the Georgian Border Police were Programme in June 2006 and until its closure in June decided at: 2007 the Mission had up to 64 international staff, 26 of whom were working under the CBP. • 616th PC Meeting, PC.DEC/731, 29 June 2006: until 30 June 2007. As of 1 February 2008, the Mission had a total of 142 staff, of whom 106 were national staff, 7 contracted international staff and 29 seconded international staff.
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