News and press releases

A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Georgia, aimed at detecting and preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) in Tbilisi from 17 to 19 April. The event brought together 45 representatives from all national agencies involved in passenger processing, including police and customs officials, the State Security Service, the Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector, and the civil aviation authority...

A high-level meeting on the results of the OSCE assistance projects on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA) in Tajikistan and prospects for future co-operation with the national authorities was held on 18 April 2018 in Dushanbe...

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and Luhansk region compared with the previous reporting period. The SMM followed up on reports of Voda Donbassa employees injured by gunfire near the Donetsk Filtration Station (DFS). It followed up on reports of shelling at an airfield in Luhansk city. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Zolote and the Petrivske disengagement areas. Its access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas and elsewhere.*

MINSK, 18 April 2018 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its Working Groups in Minsk on 18 April 2018:

TASHKENT, 18 April 2018 – On his first visit to Uzbekistan as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Lamberto Zannier welcomed in Tashkent today the positive effect of the recently strengthened bilateral ties between Uzbekistan and its neighbours on inter-ethnic relations and regional security.

A team of elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Norway from 16 to 18 April 2018 to present the  final report  of ODIHR’s election expert team for the September 2017 parliamentary elections. The report’s

An OSCE-supported three-day training seminar for law enforcement press officers on the fundamentals of public relations and effective communication strategies between law enforcement and media concluded on 18 April 2018 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan...