OSCE: Book presentation "Caucasus - in Defence of Future"
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OSCE: Book presentation "Caucasus - in Defence of Future"
BOOK PRESENTATION: "THE CAUCASUS - IN DEFENCE OF THE FUTURE"
On Tuesday, November 28, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ms. Benita
Ferrero-Waldner, in a side meeting during the Eighth Meeting of the
OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna, will officially present to the
public the new OSCE Freedom of Media publication, "The Caucasus - In
Defence of the Future." This new publication is the second in the "In
Defence of the Future" series founded by the Representative of the
OSCE Office of Freedom of the Media, Mr. Freimut Duve, and is entirely
devoted to the Caucasus region, an important part of the OSCE family.
The first volume, "In Defence of the Future - Searching the
Minefield," is a collection of essays by intellectuals from regions
devastated by war and violence in former Yugoslavia.
The co-editors of the Caucasus book are Mr. Duve and the OSCE
Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the
Caucasus, Ms. Heidi Tagliavini, who will both attend the presentation
along with the Deputy Editor-in-chief of the well-known Russian
literary magazine, "Znamya," Ms. Nataliya Ivanova from Moscow.
The press event will take place on:
28 November at 11:00 a.m.
in the Segmentgalerie I at the Hofburg Conference Center
N.B. All journalists who wish to attend this event must be accredited
to the Ministerial Council meeting should fill out a Media
Accreditation Form, which can be obtain from the Federal Press Service
or downloaded from the Ministerial Council website at
http://www.osce.at/Austria2000
This book is a unique publication, a cultural premiere -- the first
time that writers from cultures and peoples in the Caucasus have been
invited to contribute jointly to a book on the future of their
region. Since the present-day situation in the Caucasus is fraught
with conflict, it requires a humanist answer from literature.
The book includes Azeri, Georgian, Armenian, Chechen, Ossetian,
Abhazian and Dagestani authors who write, often very movingly about
how they envisage the future of their own region.
We are nurturing the hope that this book will start up a community of
intellectuals and artists from all parts of the Caucasus, that will
develop into a regional forum. Experience gained from many past
conflicts has shown that dialogue which looks beyond the immediate
conflict can become the embryo of a sustainable peace. This is the
greatest aim to which such a book can aspire.
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