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OSCE trains Afghan law enforcement officers in Moscow on combatting drug trafficking
Publishing date: 29 April 2014
DOMODEDOVO, Russia, 29 April 2014 – Twelve Afghan officers from federal and provincial police authorities completed an OSCE-supported two-week train-the-trainers course near Moscow today on combatting illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crimes...
OSCE media freedom representative denounces continuing attacks, kidnappings of journalists, forced switching of TV channels in Ukraine conflict areas
Publishing date: 29 April 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, 29 April 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today denounced new cases of kidnapping and attacks on journalists, the recent takeover of a regional television station in Donetsk and illegal switching of broadcasts...
OSCE Secretary General visits Kazakhstan, discusses Ukraine, challenges in Central Asian context
Publishing date: 29 April 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretary General
The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Astana from 27 to 28 April 2014 where he met with Speaker of the Senate of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov. Zannier was accompanied during his visit by the Head of the OSCE Chairmanship Task Force in the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heidi Grau...
Fifth OSCE-supported Central Asian Forum on Internet development begins in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 29 April 2014 – A two-day Central Asian Forum on Internet development, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana for the fifth consecutive year in co-operation with MediaNet International Centre for Journalism and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation began today in Almaty...
OSCE publishes manual on budget oversight for Kosovo Assembly committees
Publishing date: 29 April 2014
The OSCE Mission published on 29 April 2014 a Manual on Budget Oversight for Kosovo Assembly Committees to assist 120 Assembly members in performing their financial oversight function over the line ministries and the government...
OSCE PA Special Representative warns co-operation against terrorism “seriously lagging behind”
Publishing date: 28 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 28 April 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Anti-Terrorism, Nikolay Kovalev (MP, Russian Federation), warned today that international co-operation against terrorism is “seriously lagging behind.”
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine- based on information received up until 27 April 2014, 19:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 28 April 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Western and Central Ukraine, including Kyiv, as well the southern part of the country, remained calm. The situation continued to be tense in the Luhansk region and particularly tense in the Donetsk region. Two Special Monitoring Mission monitors were temporary detained by the so-called People’s Militia of Donbas in Yenakiveve (55 km northeast of Donetsk. The situation in Sloviansk, where the military observers as well as accompanying Ukrainian military officers were taken captive, remains a source of concern.