News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Secretary General stresses importance of building broad partnerships to address global security challenges at the 10th Bled Strategic Forum
Publishing date: 3 September 2015
Speaking at the annual Bled Strategic Forum held on 31 August- 1 September in Slovenia, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier emphasized the importance of developing more effective partnerships to respond to increasingly complex and diverse challenges to international peace and security...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić calls for furthering political process to resolve the crisis in and around Ukraine at meeting with high OSCE officials in Belgrade
Publishing date: 2 September 2015
BELGRADE, 2 September 2015 – The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is one of the key conditions for furthering the political process, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said today, after a briefing with his Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Ambassador Martin Sajdik and the Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan. OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier also attended the meeting.
OSCE think tank and academic network debates contribution to the final report of the Panel of Eminent Persons
Publishing date: 2 September 2015
Discussion of strategic ideas for re-consolidating European security as a common project was the focus of a one-day workshop organized by the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, which took place in Vienna on 1 September 2015...
OSCE conducts seminar on simplifying international trade procedures in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 September 2015
ALMATY, 2 September 2015- An OSCE-supported three-day workshop on practical aspects of trade procedures and the function of customs authorities began today in Almaty...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 1 September 2015
Publishing date: 2 September 2015
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by security considerations*. Few ceasefire violations were recorded, exclusively at or around Donetsk airport. The SMM monitored a peaceful start to the new school year in numerous schools...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Chief Monitor urges sides to heed ceasefire appeal at school year’s start
Publishing date: 1 September 2015
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine welcomes the new impetus for peace provided by the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) that the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, announced last week in Minsk, said the SMM’s Chief Monitor, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, today.
OSCE organizes training course for the first database on domestic violence in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 1 September 2015
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Gender Centre and the Network of Women Police Officers, concluded on 1 September 2015 the second out of ten training courses on implementation of the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and the use of the domestic violence database...