News and press releases

A two-day training seminar on the use of density metres for inspecting vehicles entering Kazakhstan began on 26 October 2015 in Kazygurt, near the city of Shymkent and close to the Uzbekistan border...

Some 100 attorneys from across the country attended an OSCE-supported training course in Skopje on 26 October 2015 focusing on the rules of evidence as presented in the Law on Criminal Procedure...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje is supporting a five-day train-the-trainers course for the country’s Interior Ministry officials on crisis management in hostage situations and hostage negotiations from 26 to 30 October 2015 at the International Training Centre in Budapest, Hungary...

PODGORICA, 25 October 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Montenegro condemns the acts of violence that took place last night in Podgorica, which resulted in damage to property, including the Albanian Embassy, and injuries to police officers, journalists and civilians. Violence in the pursuit of political aims has no place in modern democratic societies.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, including the Addendum. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations. The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions was relatively calm although a number of explosions were recorded...

VIENNA, 24 October 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about a recent attack against a journalist with Buzzfeed and an attempt to storm the offices of Agence France Presse (AFP) during a public protest in Paris.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, including the Addendum. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions was relatively calm.