High Commissioner on National Minorities

**OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities**
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
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Headquarters	The Hague, Netherlands
Type	Office within the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Leaders
• High Commissioner	Kairat Abdrakhmanov
Establishment
• Founded	8 July 1992
	Website; https://www.osce.org/hcnm/

The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) is charged with identifying and seeking early resolution of ethnic tension that might endanger peace, stability or friendly relations between and within the participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

The office was created on 8 July 1992, by the Helsinki Summit Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), now known as the (OSCE), The HCNM focuses on the OSCE area and will alert the Organisation where a situation has the potential to develop into a conflict.^[1] The Organisation consists of 57 participating States across North America, Europe and Asia.^[2] The establishment of the HCNM is generally considered to be a “success story”^[3] and a useful instrument of conflict prevention.^[4]

^ OSCE HCNM Mandate, at http://www.osce.org/hcnm/107878. Retrieved 13 April 2016
^ OSCE Participating States, at http://www.osce.org/states. Retrieved 13 April 2016
^ Ghebali, V-Y. (2009) The High Commissioner on National Minorities after 15 Years: Achievements, Challenges and Promises. Security and Human Rights: 20(2), 111 at 111
^ Bloed, A. (2013) The High Commissioner on National Minorities: Origins and Background. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe: 12(3), 15 at 15

[1] OSCE HCNM Mandate, at http://www.osce.org/hcnm/107878. Retrieved 13 April 2016

[2] OSCE Participating States, at http://www.osce.org/states. Retrieved 13 April 2016

[3] Ghebali, V-Y. (2009) The High Commissioner on National Minorities after 15 Years: Achievements, Challenges and Promises. Security and Human Rights: 20(2), 111 at 111

[4] Bloed, A. (2013) The High Commissioner on National Minorities: Origins and Background. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe: 12(3), 15 at 15

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