Panel of Eminent Persons
Developing resilience and making European security more immune to crisis, the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project is mandated to provide advice on how to reconsolidate European security as a common project. The Panel is preparing the basis for an inclusive and constructive security dialogue across the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian regions, reflecting on how to re-build trust among OSCE participating States, and examining perceived threats in the OSCE area and potential common solutions.
It was launched on the initiative of the 2014 Swiss OSCE Chairmanship in close co-operation with Serbia and Germany at the OSCE Ministerial Council 2014 in Basel on 4 December.
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Final Report and Recommendations of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project, in English, Russian and Ukrainian
The Panel consists of the following members:
- Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany): Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Chairperson primus inter pares of the Panel
- Dora Bakoyannis (Greece): Member of Greek Parliament, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (2009)
- Tahsin Burcuoğlu (Turkey): Former Ambassador
- Ivo H. Daalder (United States): President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Former Ambassador
- Oleksandr Chalyi (Ukraine): Former First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, President of Grant Thornton
- Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia): Former President, President of the Club de Madrid
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno (France): President of International Crisis Group, Former UN UnderSecretary-General
- Barbara Haering (Switzerland): Director of econcept Inc., Former Member of Parliament
- Sergi Kapanadze (Georgia): Director of Georgia’s Reforms Associates, Former Deputy Foreign Minister
- Sergey A. Karaganov (Russia): Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
- Malcolm Rifkind (United Kingdom): Former Member of Parliament, Former Foreign Secretary
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland): Professor at Warsaw University, Former Foreign Minister
- Teija Tiilikainen (Finland): Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Former State Secretary
- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Kazakhstan): Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan; Former UnderSecretary-General of the UN and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
- Ivo Visković (Serbia): Professor, Former Ambassador
See short biographies of the Panel members here.
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