Republic of Macedonia launched late Wednesday in Vienna the Chairmanship with the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.

Delegations of OSCE member-states and the EU Delegation to the Organization saluted the priorities and the framework of operations by the Macedonian Chairmanship with the Forum in the last trimester of 2012, presented by Ambassador Zoran Dabic.

The EU Delegation stressed the Macedonian Chairmanship came at a crucial moment of the Forum's operating cycle, focusing on the successful preparations for the OSCE Ministerial Council, held in Dublin this December.

The Forum for Security Cooperation is one of the OSCE's two main regular decision-making bodies. The Forum was established at the 1992 Helsinki Summit to strengthen the Organization's focus on politico-military security. The Forum meets weekly in Vienna and provides a unique platform for the 56 OSCE participating States to discuss topical security challenges on an equal footing, reads the press release.