News and press releases

SUMMARY On 20 February 2015 at 07:00hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 15 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) at 16:05hrs on 20 February.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations – noted a limited number of ceasefire violations in the Luhansk region and heard intense outgoing shelling in Donetsk city.

VIENNA, 20 February 2015 – Nearly 250 parliamentarians from more than 50 OSCE participating States held an impassioned and at-times heated debate today on the crisis in Ukraine, the Organization’s responses and the status of the Minsk package of measures aimed at a resolution...

A regional workshop on access to justice in environmental matters was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in Tbilisi, Georgia on 19-20 February 2015...

Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with Icelandic Members of the Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, and representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, government ministries, and all levels of the election administration, in Reykjavik on 19-20 February to discuss the follow-up on the recommendations from ODIHR’s final reports on the 2009 and 2013 parliamentary elections.

The OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, which embraces human rights and democracy, economics and environment as well as politico-military security, offers a powerful antidote to violent extremism, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told high-level officials from around the world at the Ministerial Meeting of the White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit in Washington, DC, on 19 February 2015...

DUSHANBE, 20 February 2015 – Twenty-six officers from the Tajik border troops, the State Committee for National Security, the Ministry of Interior, Drug Control Agency and Customs Service completed a two-week training course today on combating organized crime, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.