Newsroom
News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Joint statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, by the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom, 18 June 2013- Joint Statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Franсois Hollande, President of the French Republic...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, on his visit to Georgia, expresses concern over obstacles to freedom of movement along Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 18 June 2013- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, on a two-day visit to Georgia, today discussed with President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze a number of issues, focusing on the OSCE agenda...
OSCE/ODIHR renews work of its advisory panel on freedom of religion or belief
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
The new 12-member Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met for the first time in Warsaw on 18 June 2013 to map out the Panel’s role in providing assistance to OSCE participating States...
Consolidation of Serbian legislation and ensuring better public access to laws in focus at OSCE/ODIHR workshop
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: News
What we do: Democratization
Better public access to domestic Serbian laws, the consolidation of national legislation, and its harmonization with international standards were the focus of a workshop in Belgrade organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Serbian National Assembly and the OSCE Mission to Serbia on 17 and 18 June 2013...
Parliamentarians to vote on approach to crisis in Syria
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 17 June 2013 – When more than 250 parliamentarians from across the Northern Hemisphere gather in Istanbul for the Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly this month, many will be looking to send a collective message to the United Nations about the need for an international response to the crisis in Syria...
OSCE to train Kosovo Police on protection of cultural and religious heritage
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 18 June 2013 – The OSCE Mission will organize tomorrow a first training session for the members of the newly established Kosovo Police unit responsible for the protection of cultural and religious heritage sites in the Prishtinë/Priština region...
Azerbaijani MP proposes vote on greater role for civil society
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly