News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 16 June 2015 – The annual forum of the OSCE–Tajikistan Task Force took place today in Dushanbe, where high-ranking officials from the OSCE and the Tajik government as well as representatives of civil society highlighted their recent major achievements and identified priorities for national and regional co-operation in 2016...

MINSK, 16 June 2015 – Strengthening OSCE engagement with Belarus was the focus of a two-day visit to Minsk by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Michael Georg Link which concluded today...

Discrimination preventing Muslim women and women of African descent face from achieving equal access to education and employment was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 15 and 16 June 2015...

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The SMM observed numerous ceasefire violations at and around Donetsk airport. The SMM visited weapons holding areas and observed that some weapons previously documented were no longer present, both at government-controlled and “DPR”-controlled sites...

As part of its three-year project to support the engagement of Gagauz minority youth and civil society in public discussions and public service, a roundtable was held at the OSCE Mission to Moldova on 10 June 2015...

The High-level International Conference on the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015 took place from 8 to 10 June 2015, in Dushanbe...

An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on countering cybercrime for representatives of Kazakhstan’s law-enforcement agencies began on 15 June 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...