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Municipalities in Kosovo should further improve compliance with languages law, says OSCE Mission report
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 23 June 2014 – Municipalities in Kosovo should further improve their compliance with the Law on the Use of Languages, concludes an OSCE Mission report presented today...
OSCE representative condemns threats against TV crew in Bosnia and Herzegovina, calls for full investigation
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 23 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the attack on a television crew in Bosnia and Herzegovina and called on the authorities for a full and swift investigation...
Bialiatski’s release “hopefully a sign of more to come,” says OSCE PA’s Holm
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
COPENHAGEN, 23 June 2014 – Christian Holm (MP, Sweden), the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Belarus, today welcomed the release of human rights activist Ales Bialiatski after nearly three years into his prison term, calling the move “hopefully a sign of more to come”...
OSCE facilitates video-conference on implementing Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
More than 30 experts from the Environment and Water Resources Ministry of Kazakhstan, Aarhus Centres, academia and environmental non-governmental organizations took part in a video-conference on the draft Strategic Plan 2015–2020 for the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan, on 23 June 2014 in Astana...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine based on information received until 20 June 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 21 June 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The situation across the country was calm, except parts of Donbas where tensions remained. In Luhansk a military convoy, of unknown origin, consisting of three tanks and ten BTRs (armoured personnel carriers), was seen. The Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) observed customs procedures on the administrative boundary line between Kherson region and Crimea. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team have been missing for 26 days and four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team for 23 days.
Swiss CiO calls on all sides to support ceasefire to pave the way for implementing peace plan
Publishing date: 20 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Bern, June 20, 2014- Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Didier Burkhalter, welcomed today’s announcement of a ceasefire by the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.
Latest news from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 19 June (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 20 June 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The situation across the country was calm, except parts of Donbas where tensions remained. Donetsk city remained calm, with no substantive change to the security situation. The Donetsk team has been missing for 25 and the Luhansk team for 22 days. The SMM Head Office, in co-operation with the Office in Ukraine of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have organized and have begun to implement a joint training programme of monitors from each of the ten teams on the topic of internally displaced persons (IDPs). The purpose of this UNHCR-facilitated training, carried out over the next three weeks, is to strengthen the capacity of the SMM to monitor and report on the situation regarding IDPs...