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FOREIGN MINISTER JOE BORG PARTICIPATES IN OSCE MEETING IN BUCHAREST
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04/12/2001
04/12/2001
| The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Joe Borg is currently in Bucharest, | Romania, to participate in the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) |
| During his intervention made today the Minister of | Foreign Affairs reiterated Malta’s absolute and unreserved condemnation of the terrorist acts of September the 11th. The Foreign Minister also stated that to date, Malta has acceded to twelve of the thirteen international conventions related to terrorism and is currently working hard to ensure that we accede to the thirteenth and final one of these, in the very short term. |
| Minister Joe Borg also stated the conviction that | European security as a whole and the EU’s forthcoming enlargement in particular are - more than ever - mutually interdependent processes, crucial for the enhancement of European stability. With respect to the Middle East, Minister Joe Borg stated that renewed efforts are needed to seek a bold conclusion to the Middle East conflict. Minister Borg also urged that fuller use be made of the OSCE Mediterranean dimension. |
| Foreign Minister Joe Borg also had the opportunity to | meet with the Spanish Foreign Minister, H.E. Joseph Piqué i Camps and with other Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the European Union, Candidate Countries and other European States in the fringes of the Ministerial Meeting. |
| The Minister is expected to leave Bucharest on the 4th | of December when he will fly to the Netherlands to meet the Prime Minister for the official visit in The Hague. The Minister is expected to return to Malta on the 6th of December. |
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