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Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MOSCOW / PARIS / WASHINGTON, 19 November 2014 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France) remain deeply concerned that there has been no humanitarian access to the crash site of the military helicopter downed by Azerbaijani forces on November 12. The wreckage of the helicopter lies in no man’s land in a heavily mined area along the Line of Contact...
OSCE needs stronger institutions, focus on commitments, say participants in PA’s Helsinki +40 Washington seminar
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 19 November 2014 – The second leg of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 seminar series has concluded in Washington, with six current and former Assembly presidents, members of the U.S. Congress, diplomats, experts and academics considering how the OSCE can most effectively promote good transatlantic relations and respond to new challenges, particularly in light of the crisis in Ukraine...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 19 November 2014
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
Content type: Weekly report
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. As mandated, the Observer Mission (OM) is operating 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows decreased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). Traffic flows changed again in that slightly more people left than entered the Russian Federation (RF) at the two observed BCPs. The OM continued to observe a significant number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the border in both directions. The OM observed a Russian convoy crossing to and returning from Ukraine through Donetsk BCP on 16 November...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 17 November 2014
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to focus its observation on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. In Donetsk the SMM observed an armoured truck carrying an antiaircraft machine...
OSCE Centre supports seminar in Kazakhstan on social, economic and cultural rights
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
An OSCE-supported training seminar focusing on international standards for economic, social and cultural rights and their implementation in national policies began on 19 October 2014 in Aktobe, western Kazakhstan...
OSCE promotes police reform process in Armenia
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
YEREVAN, 19 November 2014 – Reforming the police as a way to enhance criminal justice is the focus of a new guidebook published by the OSCE and presented today to the staff and students of the Armenian Police Educational Complex...
Participants of OSCE conference in Kosovo pledge to improve regional co-operation on combating organized crime and transnational threats
Publishing date: 19 November 2014
A conference organized by the OSCE Mission and Kosovo Police for law enforcement officers, government representatives, and academics from Western Balkans, Turkey and several EU countries on combating organized crime and transnational threats concluded on 18 November 2014 in Prishtinë/Priština...