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Comprehensive security approach needed for global response to COVID-19, OSCE leaders say ahead of International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
Publishing date: 23 April 2020
Content type: Press release
TIRANA/COPENHAGEN/VIENNA/WARSAW/THE HAGUE, 23 April 2020 – The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace tomorrow will be marked with a heightened appreciation for the importance of comprehensive security and greater sense of urgency for the need to strengthen international co-operation, said the Chair of the OSCE Permanent Council and heads of OSCE institutions in a statement today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Rama and Secretary General Greminger welcome release of detainees in eastern Ukraine and call for further positive steps
Publishing date: 16 April 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TIRANA / VIENNA, 16 April 2020 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edi Rama, and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger welcomed today’s mutual release and exchange of detainees in eastern Ukraine...
Third edition of the OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security training programme begins
Publishing date: 6 April 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Gender equality
Some 150 young scholars (90% female) from 46 OSCE participating States and seven Partners for Co-operation, began the eight-week online training programme on “Conflict Prevention and Resolution through Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in the OSCE Area” on 6 April 2020. The programme is organized jointly with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Vienna, thanks to generous contributions of Andorra, Finland, Germany and Switzerland...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Rama and Secretary General Greminger call for immediate action about SMM freedom of movement in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 March 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TIRANA/VIENNA, 23 March 2020- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edi Rama, and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger expressed their deep concern that in recent days, the armed formations have prevented the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) from crossing the contact line into non-government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine. They called for urgent steps to ensure the safety of SMM staff and that the SMM is able to continue to operate, while taking into account the need to control the spread of COVID-19...
OSCE’s preventative measures against COVID-19
Publishing date: 17 March 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The OSCE, together with other international organizations, continues to undertake preventative measures against the COVID-19 outbreak, in line with guidance from the authorities of host countries...
New national platform fosters inclusive dialogue on democratic oversight of security sector in Armenia
Publishing date: 27 February 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
At the invitation of the Standing Committee on Defence and Security of the Armenian National Assembly, some 50 representatives from oversight and government bodies, security sector institutions and civil society organizations gathered in Yerevan on 27 February 2020 to inaugurate the new national multi-stakeholder platform on democratic security sector oversight...
Enhancing co-operation between OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation & Permanent Council in preventing and countering terrorism focus of Vienna meeting
Publishing date: 27 February 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 27 February 2020 – Enhancing co-operation between the OSCE’s Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) and the Permanent Council (PC) in preventing and countering terrorism was the focus of a joint meeting of the FSC and PC held on 26 February in Vienna under Turkey’s FSC Chairmanship and Albania’s OSCE Chairmanship. The discussions focused on how the FSC, as the OSCE’s leading decision-making body in the politico-military sphere, can contribute, in line with its mandate and existing instruments, to the OSCE’s comprehensive approach to combating terrorism...