Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

OSCE Mission to Georgia (Closed)

OSCE military monitoring officers (left) on patrol in Georgia, 3 September 2008. (OSCE/David Khizanishvili)

The OSCE Mission to Georgia, established in 1992, assisted the Georgian Government with conflict settlement, democratization, human rights and the rule of law. No consensus was reached on the extension of the Mission's mandate at the end of 2008.

OSCE's Economic Rehabilitation Programme donates machinery and equipment to local agricultural associations

TBILISI, 16 April 2009---The OSCE 's Economic Rehabilitation Programme donated agricultural machinery and equipment to eight agricultural associations in Georgia today...

OSCE Mission programme to support Georgia's border management reform concludes with graduation of officers

TBILISI, 27 March 2009 -The graduation of 25 border police, patrol police and revenue service officers today following an OSCE-organized course marked the end of an OSCE Mission to Georgia programme to support border management reform...

OSCE military monitoring officers on patrol in Georgia, 3 September 2008.

OSCE Chairperson welcomes decision to extend mandate of Georgia monitors

VIENNA, 12 February 2009 - The 56 OSCE participating States agreed today to extend until 30 June the presence of the Organization's unarmed military monitoring officers in Georgia...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, at a news conference in Vienna, 15 January 2009.

OSCE Chairperson expresses concern over the detaining of unarmed monitors

ATHENS, 10 February 2009 - The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, today expressed concern over the detaining by South Ossetian militiamen of two unarmed OSCE Military Monitoring Officers of the OSCE Mission to Georgia...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, during a visit to Tbilisi, 21 August 2008.

OSCE Chairman regrets disagreement on OSCE future in Georgia

HELSINKI, 22 December 2008 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, said today he deeply regretted that the 56 OSCE participating States had failed to reach consensus on the future of the OSCE Mission to Georgia.