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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan and partners focus on community policing in workshop
Publishing date: 29 April 2015
DUSHANBE, 29 April 2015- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Department of State’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs supported a three-day roundtable discussion which ended today with the aim of introducing the concept of community policing in Tajikistan and fostering closer co-operation between law enforcement agencies and local media on ongoing police reform...
OSCE training course in Ashgabat promotes women’s participation in public life
Publishing date: 29 April 2015
ASHGABAT, 29 April 2015 – Gender equality and the participation of women in public life were the focus of an OSCE-organized seminar today in Ashgabat...
OSCE trains Turkmenistan border guards in border management and threat assessment
Publishing date: 29 April 2015
ASHGABAT, 29 April 2015 – Eighteen officers from the State Border Service of Turkmenistan completed an OSCE Border Management and Threat Assessment training course, held at the Imamnazar Border Crossing Point on the Turkmen-Afghan border today...
Time to tackle the OSCE’s lack of legal status, say participants at Helsinki +40 seminar
Publishing date: 28 April 2015
COPENHAGEN, 28 April 2015 – The OSCE’s lack of a clear, international legal status and the challenges that result for its personnel, particularly during crisis situations, was the topic of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s latest Helsinki +40 seminar, held on 27 April in Copenhagen...
Journalists should not face criminal charges for their work, OSCE Representative says following criminal indictment against journalist in Luxembourg
Publishing date: 28 April 2015
VIENNA, 28 April 2015 – Following criminal charges recently brought against an investigative reporter in Luxembourg, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that journalists should not face criminal charges for what they say or write...
OSCE Troika urges advancement in political process aimed at solving crisis in Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 April 2015
Collections: Serbian OSCE Chairmanship’s work in resolving the crisis in and around Ukraine, Kompilacija svih vesti i novosti o naporima predsedavanja Srbije ka rešavanju situacije u Ukrajini
BELGRADE, 28 April 2015 – OSCE Chairperson in Office, Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dačić, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter met in Belgrade today at the Ministerial Meeting of the OSCE Troika. During the meeting, the Foreign Ministers of Serbia, Switzerland and Germany, together with the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, had an extensive exchange of views on different aspects of the situation in and around Ukraine. They reiterated that this crisis can be resolved only through peaceful means and that the political process in that regard should be advanced without delay...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 27 April 2015
Publishing date: 28 April 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 that the security situation around the Donetsk airport has seriously deteriorated. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the area of Shyrokyne and for the first time was not prevented from visiting adjacent villages...