Paola Severino, the first Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Corruption: The most successful action that good public governance can take actually consists in enhancing good governance and thus preventing corruption, boosting mechanisms that reward compliance by economic actors.

The deteriorating security situation poses a threat to the facility, its workers and monitoring officers of the SMM, Apakan said.

Enhanced information-sharing and border security and human rights-compliant rehabilitation and reintegration programmes among key measures highlighted in 2018 OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference in Rome.

The grants can be used for the adoption of new technologies, processes or methods of production, introduced to build and develop socially and environmentally sustainable businesses.

There is an urgent need to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine, said Apakan, as he paid tribute to SMM colleague Joseph Stone, who was killed one year ago.

I welcome the release of CEO Akın Atalay and the acquittal of three staff members of Cumhuriyet, but I strongly condemn the prison sentences against him, as well as other journalists and staff of the newspaper.

The continued functioning of OSCE confidence- and security-building measures and arms control instruments are key to peace, said speakers.

Agreement on the mechanism for the participation of vehicles from Transdniestria in international road traffic has been signed.

All people have a fundamental right to express their opinion in peaceful protests.

Slovenia’s Chairmanship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation will be characterized by the country’s commitment to the ongoing efforts to restore confidence in the OSCE area, said State Secretary of the country’s Foreign Ministry Andrej Logar.