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Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe: Finance

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the UK contribution has been to the budget of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in every year since 1992; and what percentage of the OSCE's overall budget this has constituted. (172387)

[holding answer 7 January 2008]: The contribution of each participating state to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) unified budget is determined by a decision of the 56 participating states including the OSCE's Permanent Council. The United States of America makes the largest contribution, followed by Germany. The UK contribution to the unified budget is equal to that of France and Italy.

In the years 1992-2006 it was as follows:

Amount (€)

Percentage of overall OSCE unified budget for year

1992

243,000

9.0

1993

261,000

9.0

1994

1,889,190

9.0

1995

2,128,500

9.0

1996

3,505,050

9.0

1997

4,281,120

9.0

1998

14,441,965

10.1

1999

14,590,100

10.0

2000

20,433,613

10.0

2001

19,901,891

10.2

2002

17,257,691

10.3

2003

16,933,565

10.2

2004

17,266,417

10.2

2005

16,474,408

10.6

2006

17,137,827

10.8