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Apr 7 08 12:59 AM

The European Union currently has ten Special Representatives (EUSRs) in different regions of the world. [The EUSRs promote European Union policies and interests in troubled regions and countries and play an active role in efforts to consolidate peace, stability and the rule of law.

EU Special Representatives support the work of Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), in the regions concerned. They play an important role in the development of a stronger and more effective EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and in the EU's efforts to become a more active, more coherent and more capable actor on the world stage. They provide the EU with an active political presence in key countries and regions, acting as a “voice” and “face” for the EU and its policies.



The ten EUSRs currently in office cover the following regions: Afghanistan, the African Great Lakes Region, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central Asia, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Middle East, Moldova, the South Caucasus and Sudan. Some EUSRs are resident in their country or region of activity while others are working on a traveling basis from Brussels.