Permanent Mission of Finland signs a grant agreement with the OSCE

Permanent Representative of Finland to the OSCE, Ambassador Timo Kantola and Director for Management and Finance of the OSCE, Mr. Shahin Lauritzen signed the grant agreement on the implementation of Finland’s Wider Europe Initiative (WEI). The aim of this cooperation running until the end of 2013 is to promote security, stability and social sustainability in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Under the agreement the support to OSCE’s extra-budgetary projects and programmes amounts to 715 000 euros in 2010.

OSCE press release:  www.osce.org/item/45292.html

More information on the Wider Europe Initiative and project activities supported by Finland in the framework of the OSCE:  www.finlandosce.org/Public/default.aspx