Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropePress releases and media advisories
OSCE Chairperson welcomes appointment of Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
KYIV, 17 July 2013 - The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, welcomed the appointment of Finnish politician Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Thors has been a Member of the Parliament of Finland since 2004. She has also served as a Minister of Migration and European Affairs of Finland and was a Member of the European Parliament. Her appointment as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities was a consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States... ()
Online training system for election commissioners in Ukraine developed with OSCE support
KYIV, 17 July 2013 - The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, in co-operation with the Central Election Commission (CEC), presented a recently developed online training system for election commissioners at an event in Kyiv today... ()
Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
VIENNA, 13 July 2013 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States of America) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, conducted a series of meetings in June and July to further develop ideas for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes legislative steps taken by Ukraine to strengthen media pluralism
VIENNA, 12 July 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today welcomed the decision by Ukraine’s parliamentary assembly, the Verkhovna Rada, to adopt in its first reading the law on public television and radio... ()
OSCE facilitates co-operation on anti-money laundering between Ukraine’s and Kyrgyzstan’s Financial Intelligence Services
BISHKEK, 12 July 2013 – A week-long needs assessment to identify top priorities for increasing the investigative and legal capacity of Kyrgyzstan’s State Financial Intelligence Service to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, organized with support of the OSCE, ended today in Bishkek... ()
OSCE Centre in Astana co-organizes training on gender mainstreaming and security
BOROVOYE, KAZAKHSTAN, 12 July 2013 – Some 50 officials from Kazakhstan’s central government agencies and local executive authorities responsible for gender equality issues are taking part in an international two-day training seminar on gender mainstreaming, women and security that began today in Borovoye, northern Kazakhstan... ()
OSCE meeting opens with call to strengthen rule of law to protect human rights
VIENNA, 11 July 2013 – Governments should take steps to further strengthen the rule of law to better protect human rights, participants said today at the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna...
OSCE media freedom representative and Minister Ivanovski agree on improvements to draft media law
VIENNA, 10 July 2013 – The OSCE media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatović, today discussed the draft Law on Media and Audiovisual Services with the Minister of Information Society and Administration, Ivo Ivanovski who arrived in Vienna from Skopje today...