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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 11 January 2015
Publishing date: 12 January 2015
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM witnessed multiple instances of both incoming and outgoing shelling in areas of Donetsk city adjacent to the airport. The JCCC recorded a marked increase in reported ceasefire violations...
All participants of Panel on European Security as a Common Project confirmed
Publishing date: 12 January 2015
BELGRADE, 12 January 2015- Ivica Dačić, Serbian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, and his Troika partners Didier Burkhalter and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the respective foreign ministers of Switzerland and Germany, announced today that the composition of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project was now established. They expressed their appreciation for the commitment and engagement of the 15 distinguished individuals who have accepted their invitation to sit on the Panel. They also thanked Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger for agreeing to chair the Panel...
OSCE Chairperson Dačić pays respects to victims of terrorist attacks during Paris rally
Publishing date: 11 January 2015
PARIS, 11 January 2015 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today paid his respects to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, at a unity rally in Paris upon the invitation of French President Francois Hollande.
OSCE media freedom representative joins unity march in Paris
Publishing date: 11 January 2015
PARIS, 11 January 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today joined the unity rally held in Paris for the victims of this week’s attack and for freedom of expression.
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 9 January 2015
Publishing date: 10 January 2015
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The JCCC reported an increased number of ceasefire violations, the majority occurring in and around the Donetsk airport.
World Press Photo exhibition highlighting universal human rights and fundamental freedoms opens in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 January 2015
BISHKEK, 10 January 2015 – The World Press Photo traveling exhibition, gathering 140 pictures by the winners of the prestigious 57th World Press Photo contest, is being held from 10 to 22 January 2015 at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts “Gapar Aitiev” in Bishkek.
Spot Report by the Observer Mission at the Russian checkpoints of Gukovo and Donetsk: Russian convoy of 62 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 9 January 2015
On 08 January 2015 at 08:30 (Moscow time), a Russian convoy consisting of 62 vehicles arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). Cargo trucks were inspected by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles crossed back into the Russian Federation (RF) at 03:28 on January 09. This was the twelfth Russian convoy crossing through the Donetsk BCP since the arrival of the Observer Mission (OM) at the Russian BCPs.