OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut at the opening of the OSCE Summit in Astana, 1 December 2010. (OSCE)

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (first from left) waits for the Organization's Review Conference to begin in Warsaw, 30 September 2010. (Piotr Markowski)

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut at the Permanent Council in Vienna, 10 April 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, during the inauguration ceremony of the Organization's new Secretariat, in Vienna 21 November 2007. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (left), meets the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, in Brussels, 20 November 2007. (Council of the EU)

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut during his visit to Belgrade, 10 October 2007. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

L-r: Kazakhstan's Ambassador Kairat Abdrakhmanov, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Head of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre Herbert Salber at the Vienna Roundtable, 13 December 2010. (OSCE/Ursula Froese)