OSCE member states, including Russia, reach deal to fill vacant posts


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Jul 2017

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz talks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during an OSCE informal ministerial meeting in Mauerbach, Austria July 11, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA (Reuters) - Members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which monitors the conflict in eastern Ukraine, overcame months of deadlock on Tuesday on filling top posts, its chairman said, praising Russia's "constructive" role.

Four leadership positions are empty because of a failure to reach unanimous agreement among the 57 member states of the security organisation, which groups the United States and Russia.

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