Vehicles of the OSCE Mission to Georgia head to the airport in Tbilisi, 22 August 2008 . Photo: OSCE/German Avagyan

The OSCE is the successor of the CSCE – the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. After years of negotiations in the early 1970’s, the 35 participating States of the CSCE adopted the Helsinki Final Act at a Summit Meeting in 1975. This Final Act represented a comprehensive set of commitments covering all three dimensions of security. It was a breakthrough in the relationship betwe...

Photo: OSCE/David Khizanishvili

The OSCE is the largest regional security organization in the world. It is involved in a wide range of activities related to OSCE's three main dimensions of security; the politico-military, the human and the economic- and environmental dimension.