Nagorno Garabagh

Nagorno Garabagh

OSCE allocates â‚¬927,500 to Minsk process in 2013

12 February 2013 10:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementeva – APA. OSCE has approved its 2013 budget. APA reports that according to the decision passed at the meeting of OSCE Standing Committee, the annual budget of the organization is €144,822,600. €7,9 mln will be allocated to OSCE offices in the South Caucasus, €2,820,000 of this will be allocated to the OSCE office in Baku. According to the budget, €1,167, 000 has been allocated to the mission of Personal Representative of the CiO Andrzej Kasprzyk’s office.

€927,500 will be spent on the Minsk process on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The scales of the contributions by the member states for 2013-2015 were also determined at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council. The budget will be majorly formed by the contributions of the US (11.5% + 14% for field operations), France (9.3 + 11% for field operations) and Italy (9.3% + 11%).

Azerbaijan’s contribution will account for 0.050 of the unified budget and 0.020% of the field operations.