Despite recent rapprochement between Ukraine and Russia, the full implementation of the Minsk agreements is still “miles away” and there is still a risk that the separatist regions could turn into another “frozen conflict”, OSCE Secretary-General Thomas Greminger said in an interview with EURACTIV.
He also spoke about rebuilding trust in European security cooperation, progress in resolving the crisis in Ukraine and the prospects for the Western Balkans.
Thomas Greminger has served as secretary-general for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) since July 2017. He spoke to EURACTIV’s defence reporter Alexandra Brzozowski on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference 2020.
The OSCE’s primary goal was to promote cooperation after the Cold War, but we see relations deteriorating in Europe. How do you plan to restore the trust that was lost in recent years?
First of all, let me confirm the assessment that there is a historic deficit of trust among key stakeholders of European security. Zero-sum logic – unilateralism and bilateralism – are replacing the cooperative approach to problem-solving in security that the OSCE…
