Overview

• The Finnish OSCE chairmanship unveiled the Helsinki+50 Fund to boost voluntary contributions for the Vienna-based secretariat and field missions
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged that frozen Russian assets be seized and redirected to support peacebuilding efforts
• Participants voiced growing frustration with the consensus-based decision-making and suggested incremental procedural tweaks to prevent single states from blocking action
• OSCE officials highlighted Russia’s repeated violations of the Helsinki Final Act as a major obstacle to the organization’s conflict prevention and human-rights monitoring
• Delegates discussed reinforcing expert fact-finding mechanisms and forming coalitions of willing states to sustain OSCE operations despite vetoes