Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

OSCE Mission to Serbia

The Head of the Council of Europe Office in Belgrade, Antje Rothemund (centre) alongside the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, opening a joint press conference with representatives of the parties and coalitions running in the Novi Pazar local elections, Novi Pazar, 25 April 2012. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

Under its mandate, the Mission advises on the implementation of laws and monitors the proper functioning and development of democratic institutions and processes in Serbia. It assists law enforcement bodies and the judiciary in training and restructuring.

Ajla Niksic (l) receives a certificate for the successful completion of the six-month internship program from Thomas Moore, the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, alongside Michael Davenport, the UK Ambassador to Serbia. All the interns received certificates for completing the programme.

Serbian minority youth succeed in OSCE-supported internships

The OSCE Mission to Serbia, with the financial support of the UK Embassy in Belgrade, supported an internship programme in Serbian state institutions for young men and women from Serbian minority communities. The internship programme was developed by the Mission in partnership with the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self Government.

Ruth van Rhijn, former Head of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Department, OSCE Mission to Serbia, receives an award from the Serbian Judicial Academy for the advancement of judiciary in Serbia. Belgrade, 4 May 2012.

Former official of OSCE Mission to Serbia receives award from Serbian Judicial Academy

The former Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s Rule of Law and Human Rights Department, Ruth Van Rhijn, received the Serbian Judicial Academy’s Annual Award for the Advancement of the Judiciary on 4 May 2012...

Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade, 5 May 2010.

Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia makes statement

BELGRADE, 4 May 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, made the following statement today in relation to the police operation in the south of Serbia this morning...

Jan Lueneburg (r), the Head of Democratization Department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, talks about the situation of Roma women in Serbia with participants of the debate on activism for sustainable changes affecting Roma women. The debate was supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade, 4 April 2012.

OSCE Mission to Serbia marks international Roma day with call for inclusion

BELGRADE, 5 April 2012 – Speaking today ahead of International Roma Day on 8 April, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, offered his congratulations to the Roma community in Serbia and said that the Mission will continue to assist the Serbian Government’s efforts to implement policies in support of Roma integration...

(L-r) Primoz Vehar, ODIHR Expert from Slovenia; Radoje Cerović, Secretary of the Legislative Committee of the National Assembly of Serbia; Vlatko Ratković, Head of the Legislative Committee of the National Assembly of Serbia, and Luzius Mader, ODIHR Expert from Switzerland, listen to a presentation by Alan Page, ODIHR Expert from the United Kingdom, at a workshop on increasing public participation in the lawmaking process in Serbia, Belgrade, 26 March 2012.

OSCE/ODIHR promotes transparency and public participation in lawmaking at Belgrade workshop

Measures to increase transparency and public participation in the lawmaking process were the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 26 and 27 March 2012, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Legislative Committee of the National Assembly of Serbia...

OSCE Mission to Serbia helps improve transparency of Security-Information Agency

BELGRADE, 27 March 2012 – Serbia’s Security-Information Agency (BIA) launched a new website today, developed with support from the OSCE Mission to Serbia...

OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Interior Ministry’s efforts to assist crime victims

A four-day OSCE-supported workshop for officers from Serbia’s Interior Ministry and the Police Academy took place from 20 to 23 March 2012 in Belgrade...

OSCE Mission helps improve emergency management and disaster response in Serbia

A three-day simulation exercise on emergency management for representatives of municipal emergency headquarters from Nova Varos, Prijepolje and Priboj took place from 21 to 23 March 2012 in Zlatibor...