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Belgium's 2006 OSCE Chairmanship ends with the Ministerial Council on December 4 and 5 in Brussels and is therefore a good opportunity to take stock of the OSCE's activities over the past year-even if the picture is rather grim. The organization's activities in the field of the "human dimension" remain a bone of contention among its members, efforts to resolve conflicts have remained largely unsuccessful, and plans for institutional reform have become bogged down.