News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation: Modernizing the Vienna Document and strong CSBMs are key responses to security challenges
Publishing date: 19 May 2016
VIENNA, 19 May 2016- Challenges and opportunities in updating conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building measures were the focus of Wednesday’s OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation held in Vienna, under the Forum’s Chairmanship of Poland...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 17 May 2016
Publishing date: 18 May 2016
The SMM observed a relatively low level of violence in Donbas. The Mission continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons and visited a border area not controlled by the Government. The SMM noted long queues at checkpoints and monitored the situation affecting civilians living near the contact line. It followed up on reports of shelling in “DPR”-controlled Dokuchaievsk and on reports of casualties due to an explosion in Donetsk city. The SMM also monitored the situation of IDPs. The Mission’s freedom of movement was restricted on three occasions...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office opens high-level conference on economic connectivity in Berlin
Publishing date: 18 May 2016
BERLIN, 18 May 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opened the OSCE business conference “Connectivity for Commerce and Investment” in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin today, with close to 1000 high-ranking official and business representatives from the entire OSCE region and beyond attending...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
BERLIN, 17 May 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today issued the following statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict:
OSCE trains Azerbaijani and Georgian law enforcement officers to combat cybercrime through open source IT forensics and network investigations
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
TBILISI, 17 May 2016 – A five-day training course for law enforcement representatives from Georgia and Azerbaijan on introductory open source IT forensics and network investigations started on Monday in Tbilisi, Georgia...
War crimes prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at OSCE meeting in Mostar, discuss cases involving enforced disappearance
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 17 May 2016 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina today hosted a peer-to-peer meeting for cantonal and district war crimes prosecutors on the legal qualification of enforced disappearance and on applying substantive law in less complex war crimes cases...
OSCE Gender Equality Platform for Border Security and Management launched in Helsinki
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
The Launch Meeting of the OSCE Gender Equality Platform for Border Security and Management was held in the premises of the Finnish Customs School in Helsinki on 17-18 May 2016 bringing together representatives from across the OSCE region to discuss women’s leadership and empowerment in border security and management...