Armenia voted in favor of Turkish candidate as OSCE head
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe elected former Turkish Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu on Friday as its new secretary general, a Turkish diplomatic source said, filling a position that had been vacant since September.
The OSCE is the successor to a body set up during the Cold War for the east and west to engage with each other. In recent years, however, and especially since Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow has blocked many key decisions, often crippling the organisation, Reuters reported.
Foreign ministers from OSCE member states met in Malta this week and agreed on Sinirlioglu being the new secretary general, the source said, making him the first Turk to take up the role in the OSCE General Secretariat's 50 years.
Sinirlioglu's three-year term was approved by all 57 member states, the source said, meaning it was not opposed by Turkey's historic rivals Greece, Cyprus, and Armenia.
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