News and press releases

On 27 February 2015 at 07:24hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 85 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) by 18:14hrs on 27 February.

BRUSSELS, 27 February 2015 – Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, spoke on the phone today with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM monitored movement of heavy weapons in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

Ergneti, 27 February 2015 – The 52nd meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place today in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus.

VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – All sides in eastern Ukraine must continue to fulfil in good faith their obligations under the Minsk Package of Measures, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said today in Vienna following a meeting with the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the permanent representatives of the two other Troika members – Ambassadors Thomas Greminger of Switzerland and Rüdiger Lüdeking of Germany.

Raising awareness on lack of identity documents within the Roma community is the focus of a manual launched by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Ministry of Internal Affairs, in Strumica on 27 February 2015...

VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged a swift investigation of the wiretapping of Macedonian journalists...