The mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk has been extended for a year, the OSCE press office reports.

The decision was announced Thursday, February 4 during a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council.

Kasprzyk was re-appointed as the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office for the 19th time since January 1997.