Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-hostes 2008 OSCE-Afghanistan Conference

Date: Nov 09, 2008
Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs , Dr Spanta opened 2008 OSCE-Afghanistan Conference. Over forty delegations from the Organization for Security and cooperation in Europe as well as its Asian partners were present.
The theme of this conference will be "Strengthening co-operation between the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation to address challenges to security." Since 2000, the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation have been organizing conferences with the aim of exchanging experiences in all three OSCE dimensions of security. This year's conference will be held for the first time in Afghanistan.
The debate will focus on issues across the three dimensions, including the OSCE's contribution to capacity-building in the OSCE region and the Asian Partners for Co-operation; threats to the common security and stability of the OSCE participating States and the Asian Partners for Co-operation, with particular attention to Central Asia and Afghanistan; and challenges and opportunities in border security and management, including customs modernization