News and press releases

Vienna, 4 June 2015 – Recalling Malta’s call, during the negotiations that led to the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, that “without peace in the Mediterranean, there can never be peace in Europe”, Malta Minister for Foreign Affairs George W. Vella stressed today in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council that recent developments in the Southern OSCE region confirm that the Mediterranean was, and remains a major concern to the security of Europe.

The role of community policing in crime prevention and strengthening police-public partnership was the focus of the conference organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the Armenian Police and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) on 4 June 2015...

ASTANA, 4 June 2015 – The Second OSCE-supported Water Forum on practical solutions for water governance and co-operation between the government institutions, universities and the private sector took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...

PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 3 June 2015 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on South East Europe, Roberto Battelli (MP, Slovenia), is visiting Belgrade, Prishtine/Pristina and Skopje this week for meetings with high-level officials and representatives of OSCE field presences for discussions on political developments in the region, including the ongoing dialogue between Belgrade and Prishtine/Pristina and the situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Fighting erupted around the government-controlled town of Marinka (23km west-south-west of Donetsk city centre) in the morning of 3 June. The SMM observed the movement of a large amount of heavy weapons in “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”)-controlled areas – generally in a westerly direction towards the contact line – close to Marinka, preceding and during the fighting. Calm was restored by the early evening.

YEREVAN, 3 June 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić emphasized today in Yerevan the importance of regional dialogue as he concluded his trip to the South Caucasus, following visits to Baku on 1 June and Tbilisi on 2 June...

TIRANA, 3 June 2015 – The OSCE Presence in Albania, funded by the German government, launched today a project that aims at fostering a broad public dialogue about the communist past in Albania...